Technical Forestry Services

Our technical forestry services include:

  • Stand exams

  • Forest inventory

  • Cruising and marking

  • Timber Harvest Plans

  • Comprehensive management planning

  • California Environmental Quality Act Compliance

Two stream monitoring technicians navigate the large cobbles in a small tributary.

Pictured is staff conducting stream monitoring in Trinity County.

Field Crews

Our well-trained crew of insured local sawyers and equipment operators can help you implement a wide range of land management practices, including:

  • Hazardous fuels reduction and defensible space around homes

  • Brush cutting, piling, and burning

  • Pre-commercial thinning for timber production

  • Trail construction and maintenance

  • Habitat enhancement

  • Mechanical mastication

  • Tree and vineyard pruning and harvest

We provide our own saws, hand tools, and skid-steer brush mower/masticator. We have the capabilities to assist you with your land management needs.

Watershed Assessments

Our watershed assessments are designed to assess existing vegetation conditions, develop restoration priorities, monitor restoration impacts and develop the essential building blocks for large-scale implementation planning.

The Watershed Center employs a full range of natural resource management professionals that can help you reach your goals. From planning, modeling, and compliance, to implementation and monitoring, our staff can help you every step of the way.

We have experienced prescribed fire and field crews and water and roads experts on staff. Our reliable, professional crews are available at reasonable rates and we often have grant funding that can offset or reduce the cost of work.

Two prescribed fire technicians in helmets, gloves, and Nomex pants and shirts stand casually in front of a controlled burn. The flames are low, creeping through leaf litter. Their drip torches are on the ground next to them.

Pictured are specialist tending to a prescribed fire.

Prescribed Fire Services

Prescribed fire can be a cost-effective and ecologically beneficial management tool. The Watershed Center can help you with:

  • Burn planning

  • Smoke management planning

  • Broadcast burning

  • Pile burning

Hayfork Youth Conservation Crew

The Hayfork Youth Conservation Crew (HYCC) is a summer work experience program for local youth. The HYCC is a crew of high school students (ages 15-18) who learn stewardship skills by implementing conservation work such as trail maintenance, noxious weed management, fuels reduction, native plant protection, stream monitoring, and rangeland fence repair.

Three stream monitoring technicians take flow measurements at a stream gauge.

Pictured is staff conducting stream flow measurements in Trinity County.

Stream-based Services

Our stream-based services include planning, monitoring, and in-stream restoration work. We offer various monitoring services including:

  • Stream flow measurements

  • Water quality assessments

  • Stream temperature monitoring

  • Wetland enhancement

  • Riparian vegetation assessment

  • Salmonid restoration projects

  • Stream bed alteration

  • Permitting