
Homesite Clearing & Forest Clean-Up
Are you looking to build a home? Before your builders come in to start on your home, we professionally do the clearing of the homesite. This prevents large equipment from bulldozing the trees and destroying the “leave trees” that you will want for your landscaping after all is built.
It also reduces the large pile of slash that is created during the construction process. We pile the wood chips, and later, they can be applied over the soils disturbed by construction, to start soil rebuilding.
Homesite Clearing & Forest Clean-Up
Are you looking to build a home? Before your builders come in to start on your home, we professionally do the clearing of the homesite. This prevents large equipment from bulldozing the trees and destroying the “leave trees” that you will want for your landscaping after all is built.
It also reduces the large pile of slash that is created during the construction process. We pile the wood chips, and later, they can be applied over the soils disturbed by construction, to start soil rebuilding.
TREE CARE BEFORE & AFTER
TREE CARE BEFORE & AFTER
TREE CARE BEFORE & AFTER

Pruning
Tree, shrub, and vegetation pruning. Our professional tree climbers use only proper pruning techniques to reduce the risk of tree failure. A proper prune will help prolong the life of a tree while a younger tree gets established to take its place.
A certified arborist will never top a tree to reduce the height. Often homeowners feel their trees have become too large for their property. They believe that topping would reduce the height and remove the hazard. However, topping creates a much greater hazard.
Why topping a tree creates a hazardous tree?
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The tree reacts in despair because all of their foliage was removed and in their last attempt to live, they send out a rapid growth of multiple shoots to put out a new crop of leaves as soon as possible. This seriously weakens the tree and uses its energy reserves
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This stressed tree becomes more vulnerable to insect and disease
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Large pruning wounds cannot be healed over and creates large amounts of decay sent down into the trunk of the tree
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The tree is exposed to too much sunlight and creates sunburn which leads to cankers, bark splitting, and death
The irony is that while the goal was to reduce the tree’s height to make it safer, it has been made more hazardous than before.

Terra Firma Forestry is the official contractor for the Town of Salida, Town of Buena Vista, and Town of Poncha Springs.