Services

Arboriculture

Tree Trimming

Promoting healthy growth and a beautiful appearance for your trees. Our skilled arborists will remove dead branches, shape overgrown limbs, and improve overall tree health.

 Tree Removal

Safely removing trees that pose a threat to your property, are dead or diseased, or simply need to be relocated. We handle the entire process, from permits (if required) to clean-up.

Storm Damage

Restoring your property after a storm's wrath. We quickly and safely address fallen trees, damaged branches, and debris, getting your landscape back in order.

Fire Mitigation

Wildfires are a natural part of Colorado’s forests. Wildland fires include grass fires, brush fires, and forest fires. The impact of these fires can be minimized or mitigated by creating a defensible space and taking other actions to reduce the intensity of the fire and help fire crews fight fires that may threaten your home.

Hazard Tree Risk Assessment

Not all trees appearing to have a problem are at risk. Likewise, all trees are not necessarily safe if problems are not apparent. To clear up possible confusion, we offer tree risk assessments to our customers.

Street Tree Inventory

A street tree inventory is a systematic assessment of a community's public trees, collecting data on their location, species, size, health, and condition to create a database for effective management, planning future plantings, prioritizing maintenance (like pruning or removal), identifying hazards, and justifying budget needs for a healthy urban forest. It's the foundational first step for developing a comprehensive urban forestry program. 

Urban Forest Plans

An Urban Forest Management Plan (UFMP) is a strategic, long-term roadmap guiding a city to sustainably manage its trees for maximum community benefits like clean air, stormwater control, and beauty, by outlining goals, inventorying resources, planning maintenance (planting, pruning, removal), ensuring resilience, and coordinating efforts across agencies and with the public. It's an action plan based on data to manage public trees proactively, providing direction for budgets, policies, and work programs. 

Forestry

Forest Management Plans

A management plan describes the current condition of your woodlot and details the appropriate management practices or varying options that can help accomplish your goals. The plan can be as simple as a map and a few pages detailing recommended harvests or a complex document describing forest, soil, water, and wildlife resources, along with property history and management recommendations with explanations of the theory behind the management.

Management plans are an excellent resource for all who assist in management activities on your property and can be very beneficial as an organizational tool.  Maintaining an up-to-date forest management plan is often required to qualify your property for cost sharing programs, sustainable forest certification programs, and property tax reductions programs.

• Qualified Forest Program (MDARD)

• Forest Stewardship Program (DNR)

• Commercial Forest Program (DNR)

• General forest and wildlife management plans

Forest Inventories

Aurora Forestry Consultants can provide inventory services of varying intensities to meet unique objectives. We can work within the parameters of your existing inventory program or customize a system that works for you and your investment. Aurora Forestry Consultants has many years of experience working with clients on forest inventories of all sizes.

Wildlife Habitat Management

We can design a forest management strategy to promote desired wildlife species on your woodlands through:

• Planting or promoting desired forest vegetation

• Manage for nut producing tree species

• Create cover for species habitat through planting and tree harvesting

• Eradicate invasive species where possible

• Protecting endangered species if present

Forest Health Consultation

This service is ideal for:

• Small forest landowners not planning a timber harvest

• New landowners unfamiliar with forest management

• Conservation-minded owners looking to enhance ecological value

• Families with legacy woodlots that want guidance without a long-term contract

• Forestry recommendation based on landowner goals that could include the following actions:

  • Harvest

  • Planting

  • Disease management

  • Health management 

  • Timber stand improvement

  • Invasive species prevention and management