Defensible Space & Fuel Reduction in Fort Dick, CA

Fort Dick is quiet, rural, and green: small farms and homesteads between Lake Earl and the highway, with tree lines that were planted for wind protection back when the land was first worked. Those rows of cypress and spruce are mature now, and mature means maintenance.

How defensible space & fuel reduction goes in Fort Dick

Fort Dick is small farms and homesteads between Lake Earl and the highway, with tree lines planted for wind protection when the land was first worked. On a Fort Dick property the crew starts at the house and works out, limbs lifted with pole saws and climbing where the Monterey cypress is big, brush cut at the base and dragged to the chipper, dead trees felled where there is a lay. The big wood is bucked for firewood if you want it.

Coastal wind crosses the Fort Dick flats off Lake Earl, and the mature cypress and spruce rows planted against it are now tall enough to be a load instead of a shield. Storm-broken windbreak trees dropping on outbuildings and fence lines are the Fort Dick call we get after every big blow. Fort Dick is ten minutes from the Crescent City base and usually paired with Smith River jobs.

When Fort Dick homeowners call for defensible space & fuel reduction

• Brush, duff, or firewood stacked against the house, the deck, or an outbuilding.
• Eucalyptus, bay laurel, or Monterey cypress seedlings growing thick against a structure.
• A woodpile, a propane tank, or an outbuilding with no clear space around it.
• A slope below the house near the Highway 101 corridor that has not been thinned in years.

Pasture and homestead soils here hold decades-old stumps that grind out easily and finally let the mower through. Fence-line brush and windbreak deadwood near barns are the fuels we clear here, mostly during fall maintenance.

Working in Fort Dick

Our Fort Dick jobs are a farm-country mix: thinning and topping-out overgrown windbreaks, removing storm-broken trees before they drop on outbuildings, grinding decades-old stumps out of pasture and yard, and clearing brush that has crept into fence lines.

Around Fort Dick that means Lake Earl, Kings Valley Road, Lower Lake Road, Morehead Road, and the properties between. Rural homesteads near Lake Earl, mature windbreaks, pasture stumps and fence-line brush.