Prescribed Fire Contractors updated May 2011

We post a list of contractors, organizations, and government agencies offering prescribed fire, fuels reduction, controlled burn, fire break installation, cost -share assistance and fire training services on this site. SEE BELOW FOR LIST

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Informational Resources for Contractors:

• Standard Fire Contract Provisions for Wildland and Prescribed Fire from the National Wildfire Coordinating Group
• Contracting for National Interagency Fire Center
• The Nature Conservancy's Guidance for Contracting a Prescribed Burn

List of Contractors and Services

The Wisconsin Prescribed Fire Council and its members do not endorse, recommend or take any responsibility for the work conducted by any contractor on the list. The contractors are listed alphabetically. Any one else who would like to have their business or service listed may fill out the form and submit it. The list will be updated at the beginning of each year.

Adaptive Restoration LLC

Contact Name: Mike Healy Address: P.O. Box 45205, Madison, WI 53711 Phone number: 608-554-0411 Email: mike@adaptiverestoration.com Website: www.adaptiverestoration.com Service Area: Wisconsin (statewide) Services offered: Adaptive Restoration LLC offers professional, science-based ecological restoration and land management services. We provide expertise and experience in restoration and prescribed burn plan writing, burn implementation, and fire effects monitoring. We have experience conducting burns in rural, residential, urban and natural areas, including prairies, savannas, wetlands, farms and research sites. Our burn crew is NWCG-trained and fully insured, and we provide all necessary equipment, signage, personnel and planning to conduct your burn safely and efficiently.

Agrecol

Contact Name: Customer Service Address: 2918 Agriculture Dr, Madison, WI 53718 Phone number: 608-223-3571 Email: ecosolutions@agrecol.com Website: www.agrecol.com Service Area: SW, SE, and Central Wisconsin, Northern Illinois Services offered: Agrecol's ecological products and services include more than 200 species of native seed and plant production and prairie sod, installation and maintenance of native plantings and restorations, vegetated retaining walls, erosion control, prescribed burns, stormwater management, manufacturing, design, consulting and other ecological restoration products and services.

Applied Ecological Services, Inc

Contact Name: Mathew Stone Address: 17921 Smith Road, Broadhead, WI 53520 Phone number: 608-897-8641 Email: mathew@appliedeco.com Website: www.appliedeco.com Service Area: Nationwide Services offered: Applied Ecological Services, Inc (AES) offers prescribed burn services for any situation, including controlling invasive species, stimulating native vegetation, minimizing brush encroachment, enhancing regeneration, and reducing fuel loads. We provide consulting and management services that encompass all stages of the prescribed burn, including burn plans, firebreak installation, obtaining permits and executing the burn from start to finish. Our well-trained Burn Crew will perform your prescribed burn in a safe, efficient and effective manner. Additional information: AES also provides consulting, contracting and nursery services for a broad range of ecological restoration projects locally, nationally and internationally. 2010 Wisconsin Prescribed Fire Council Contractor List

BioLogic Environmental Consulting (a division of Adaptive Restoration LLC)

Contact Name: Brandon Mann Address: P.O. Box 45205 Madison, WI 53711 Phone number: 608-320-6623 Email: bmann@gobiologic.com Website: www. gobiologic.com Service Area: Wisconsin statewide Services offered: BioLogic Environmental Consulting offers professional, science-based ecological restoration and land management services. We provide expertise and experience in restoration and prescribed burn plan writing, burn implementation, and fire effects monitoring. We have experience conducting burns in rural, residential, urban and natural areas, including prairies, savannas, wetlands, farms and research sites. Our burn crew is NWCG-trained and fully insured, and we provide all necessary equipment, signage, personnel and planning to conduct your burn safely and efficiently.

Cedarburg Science, LLC

Contact Name: Chris Heston Address: 1555 Wisconsin Avenue, Grafton, WI 53204 Phone number: 262-376-0735 Email: cedsci@cedarburgscience.com Website : www.cedarburgscience.com Service Area: SE Wisconsin Services offered: Prescribed burns, planning, preparing firebreaks, implementing burns, monitoring results, wetland delineation, habitat assessment, stewardship planning, invasive species control, restoration and enhancement of wetlands, woodlands and prairies, native tree, shrub and forb plantings, and Endangered and threatened species habitat evaluations and surveys. Additional information: Cedarburg Science is a full-service natural areas management firm, established in 1998. They are a registered small business and DBE, and offer hands-on, consultative approach for enhancement and restoration of natural communities.

Chloeta Fire, LLC

Contact Name: Mark Masters Address: 13101 S. Penn Avenue, Suite 13, Oklahoma City, OK 73170 Phone number: 1-877-CHLOETA (1-877-245-6382 Email: info@chloetafire.com Website: www.chloetafire.com Service Area: Wisconsin (statewide), Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan Services offered: Chloeta Fire, LLC (CFI) is an American Indian owned and operated firm providing a diverse range of natural resources and emergency services solutions. CFI is capable of safely planning and implementing prescribed fire projects in a variety of fuel types, specializing in complex Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) projects. CFI personnel are knowledgeable about the effects of fire utilization to decrease the threat of catastrophic wildfires, improve wildlife habitat and livestock grazing forage and improve the overall ecological health of an ecosystem and utilize modern smoke management and fire behavior modeling software products.

Conservation Land Stewardship, Inc

Contact Name: Joshua Arrigoni Address: 375 West First Street, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126 Phone number: 630-559-2035 Email: jarrigoni@cdfinc.com Website: www.conservationlandstewardship.com Service Area: Statewide in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan Services Offered: Conservation Land Stewardship offers comprehensive consulting and field services for habitat restoration and prescribed burn management. Services include burn plan development, permit acquisition, firebreak installation, and burn execution. Our crews are NWCG trained and certified, with the expertise and equipment to conduct prescribed burns of every scale, from backyard prairies to hundreds of acres of restored habitat. Contact us to see how we can plan, permit, and safely execute a prescribed burn for your restoration.

Dare Ecosystem Management, LLC

Contact Name: Jason Dare Address: N3935 Liberty Street, Sullivan, WI 53178 Phone Number: 262-582-3051 Email: jasondare@dareecosystemmanagement.com Website: www.dareecosystemmanagement.com Service Area: Southeast Wisconsin Services Offered: Dare Ecosystem Management, LLC (DEM), specializes in RX burning, is fully insured and NWCG trained. We have experience working in extreme topography, urban settings and various natural communities. Our experience ranges from working for not for profit organizations to burn larger nature preserves, to conducting burns for private clients with backyard prairies. No matter how large or small the job, we are committed to allocating the proper amount of time, consideration and resources to conduct a safe and effective RX burn. Services include: planning, break establishment, preparation, obtaining permits, implementation, mop-up and reporting. We focus our efforts in SE Wisconsin and also provide ecological management services within this region.

David Borneman, LLC

Contact name: David Borneman Address: 1123 Mixtwood Street , Ann Arbor , MI 48103 Phone: 734-994-3475 Email: davidborneman@yahoo.comWebsite: www.restoringnaturewithfire.com Service area: Wisconsin (Statewide), Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois Services offered: With over 19 years experience, David Borneman has safely conducted prescribed burns on private lands, regional parks, golf courses, hunting preserves, state DNR land, farms, city and township parks, schools, metro airports, and corporate campuses throughout the Midwest. We provide a complete service from initial consultation, through the burn planning process (RX writing, burn permits, weather monitoring, etc.) and implementation with a full complement of burn and safety equipment and trained crew. Fully insured.

Driftless Land Stewardship LLC

Contact name: Jaye Maxfield Address: 13761 County Road CX, Bagley, WI 53801 Phone: 608-996-2135 Email : jaye@driftlesslandstewardship.comWebsite: www.driftlesslandstewardship.com Service area: Southwest and Central Wisconsin, NE Iowa, NW Illinois, SE Minnesota Services offered: Specializing in extreme topography, varied natural communities, and wildland/urban interface. Prescribed fire services include: planning, preparation, implementation, mop-up, monitoring, and reporting. Full-service natural areas management including fire surrogates such as mechanical / manual vegetation management and prescribed grazing.

EC3 Environmental Consulting Group Inc.

Contact Name: Eric Schlender Address: P.O. Box 44281, Madison, WI 53744-4281 Phone number: 608-963-8934 Email address: eschlender@ec3grp.comWebsite link: www.ec3grp.comService area: Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota Services offered: EC3 Environmental Consulting Group, Inc. offers a wide variety of ecological and field management services including; prescribed burning, management and restoration planning, consulting, and site inventory analysis. EC3's NWCG certified burn team is among the most highly trained & experienced in the great lakes region. EC3's team has over 50 years combined experience while burning thousands of acres. Writing burn plans, obtaining necessary permits, and proper burn break installation are an integral part of the process. EC3 provides assistance with grant acquisition and 2010 Wisconsin Prescribed Fire Council Contractor List conservation programs, site installation and maintenance, and control of invasive species. EC3 provides a diverse array of native seed species including pre-designed, conservation program, and custom mixes. Additional information: Client service will always remain our top priority. EC3 is fully licensed and insured in all aspects of its business including prescribed burning.

Ecological Restoration Services, LLC

Contact Name: Bryan Huberty Address: 311 Island Drive #4, Madison, WI 53705 Phone number: 608-345-4024 Email address: bryan@restorewisconsin.comWebsite link : www.restorewisconsin.com Service area: Wisconsin (SW, SE, C), Northern Illinois Services offered: Ecological Restoration Services ( ERS ) offers a wide variety of prescribed burn services from planning the burn and obtaining permits to preparing firebreaks, implementing burns, monitoring results, invasive species control, restoration and enhancement of wetlands, woodlands and prairies from remnants to plantings, and protecting and stimulating endangered and threatened plants and ecosystems. Our burn crew is trained and safe. Additional information: ERS is an insured, full-service natural areas management firm, established in 2000 and based in Madison.

Good Oak Ecological Services

Contact Name: Frank Hassler Address: 205 Walter St, Madison, WI 53714 Phone number: 608-209-0607 Email address: frank@goodoakllc.comWebsite link: www.goodoakllc.comService area: SW, SE and Central Wisconsin, Illinois Services offered: Good Oak provides natural areas restoration, native landscaping and ecological consulting services to southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Our team has over forty years of combined experience conducting prescribed burns in prairies, woodlands and wetlands in a variety of weather, fuel conditions and types of terrains. We are happy to work on sites ranging from urban backyards to prairies and woodlands over 100 acres in size.

JFNew

Contact name: Nicole Staskowski Address: 403 Venture Ct., Unit 7, Verona, WI 53593 Phone number: 608-848-1789 Email address: nstaskowski@jfnew.com Website: http://www.jfnew.com Service Area: Statewide Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota Services offered: JFNew is an ecological consulting, restoration, and cultural resources firm and native plant nursery, located in Madison, Wisconsin with additional offices throughout the Great Lakes. For more than 20 years JFNew has provided clients with design, planning, and restoration services for wetland, prairie, woodland and habitat projects. JFNew has qualified staff who have completed NWCG training through 2010 Wisconsin Prescribed Fire Council Contractor List S-390/Rx-300 level. Our services include developing burn plans, agency coordination, site preparation, burn completion, mop-up and public education.

Local Landowners, LLC

Contact Name: Cindy Wagner Address: 413 S 4th St E, Fort Atkinson, WI 53538 Phone: 920-563-8552 Email: landkprs@charter.net Service area: Southwest and Southeast Wisconsin Services offered: prescribed burns, planning, and firebreak implementation Additional information: The crew has attended prescribed burn informational classes and the owners have attended S190/S130/S100 courses. They have water suppression equipment and work well with first-time customers who need prescribed burns.

Marek Landscaping LLC

Contact name : Mike Marek Address: 820 E Knapp Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202 Phone: 414-272-0242 Email address: mike@mareklandscaping.com Website: www.mareklandscaping.com Service Area: Wisconsin, statewide Services offered: Prescribed burning services, including planning, implementation, monitoring, low impact fire break development, land stewardship planning, GPS / GIS and AutoCad mapping as well as assistance with any phase of implementation. Additional Information: Milwaukee based, happy to work on smaller scale projects and to assist landowners, groups, and agencies

Midwest Prairies LLC

Contact name: Ronald Martin Address: 10651 N Charley Bluff Road, Milton, WI 53563 Phone: 608-868-3169 Email address: ron@midwestprairies.com Website: www.midwestprairies.com Service area: Southeast Wisconsin Services offered: Midwest Prairies LLC offers prescribed burn services with an experienced crew. Our services encompass all stages of the burn, including planning the burn, installing firebreaks, obtaining permits and operating in a professional, safe and efficient manner. Additional Information: We offer an introductory class in prescribed burning in the spring. Check out our web site for more information. 2010 Wisconsin Prescribed Fire Council Contractor List

NES Ecological Services

Contact name: Adam Ingwell Address: 4664 Golden Pond Park Court, Hobart, WI 54155 Phone: 608-438-1989 Email address: aingwell@releeinc.com Website: http://releeinc.com/NES/nes.html Service area: Wisconsin statewide Services offered: NES Ecological Services is a team of ecologists with over 40 years of collective experience in conservation land management planning, ecological restoration, natural areas management, and wetland ecology. NES personnel have conducted prescribed burns professionally over a variety of landscapes, ranging from large acreages to very small units. Our team assists clients throughout the entire process, beginning with agency coordination and plan writing, and continuing through the mop-up phase. NES crews are trained through the NWCG and are fully insured for prescribed burning.

NRC Restorations, LLC

Contact name: Steve Banovetz Address: 209 Commerce Parkway, Cottage Grove, WI 53527 Phone: 608-712-0608 Email address: sbanovetz@nrc-inc.netWebsite: www.nrcdifference.com Service area: Wisconsin (statewide), Northern Illinois, NE Iowa, SE Minnesota Services offered: NRC Restorations, LLC (NRCR) provides complete prescribed burn services. We develop comprehensive burn plans and maps, create fire breaks, utilize back burning methods, and respect weather conditions. Our crews will arrive with 350 gallons of water, ATV's with tank sprayers, and all other burn equipment necessary to ignite and suppress a burn. Our crews dress in fire resistant clothing, communicate with both two-way radios and cell phones, and are trained through the National Wildfire Coordinating Group. We are fully insured and can be bonded for any size project.

Paust LLC

Contact Name: Dale M. Paust Address: N9007 Caldron Falls Road, Crivitz, WI 54114 Phone number: 715-757-3722 Email: dmpaust@gmail.com Service Area: NE Wisconsin Services offered: Construction and maintenance of fire breaks, small-prescribed burns

Partners for Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Not a contractor)

Contact Name: Terry Severson Address: 4511 Helgesen Dr. Madison, WI 53718 Phone number: 608-221-1206 x12 Email: Terry_Severson@fws.gov Website: www.fws.gov/midwest/WisconsinPartners Service Area: WI, MN, IA, MI, IL, OH, IN, MO Additional Information: The Partners Program provides financial assistance and technical assistance to non-state and non-federal landowners for management of their land for wildlife. We can help with fire break establishment, fuel reduction, invasive control, and with fire implementation. For us to assist with fire implementation, contractors must follow all federal standards for burn plans and qualifications. Landowners need to sign a ten year agreement with the Partners Program for financial assistance.

Prairie Works, Inc.

Quercus Land Stewardship Services

Contact Name: Jim Elleson Address: 4671 Highway JJ, Black Earth, WI 53515 Phone number: 608-767-3553 Email address: mail@quercus-ls.com Website: www.quercus-ls.com Service Area: Wisconsin (statewide) Services offered: Our trained, insured and fully equipped crew will carry out your burn safely and professionally. We offer complete prescribed burn services for many objectives including encouraging native vegetation, controlling invasive species, reducing brush encroachment, enhancing oak regeneration and reducing fuel loads. We provide consultation and management recommendations and we develop burn plans, install firebreaks, obtain permits and execute burns from ignition through mop-up and assessment.

River Valleys Wildlife Management / Sugar River Valley Pheasants Forever

Contact Name: David Wisnefske Address: W4634 Richland Road, Monroe, WI 53566 Phone number: 608-325-4606 (home) or 608-558-2075 (cell) Email address: savanasp@tds.net Website: http://savannasprings.comService Area: SW and S Central Wisconsin and NW Illinois Services offered: We have equipment and manpower for controlled burns. We help with developing and writing of prescribed burn plans. We can do some discing or mowing of burn corridors in some areas. We have many members of our team who have certified burning training and red cards. Our Pheasants Forever chapter has a food plot and seed program. We do wildlife habitat and prairie installation consultation.

Seiferts Field & Forest, LLC

Contact Name: Jack Seifert Address: PO Box 166, Baraboo, WI 53913 Phone: 608-356-2360 Email address: jack@seifertsllc.com Website: www.seifertsllc.com Service area: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri Services offered: Seifert's Field & Forest LLC is by far the Eastern Region's largest, most equipped and experienced Prescribed Fire Service Provider. With over 175 NWCG Combined Years of Experience and Training in Wildland Firefighting and all aspects of Prescribed Fire, Seifert's has conducted over 500 burns for over 20,000 acres. Seifert's specializes in large burn units from 500 to 1,000 acres in size, with (3) RXB2 / ICT3 Burn Bosses, (4) FIRB / ICT4 Firing Bosses, (4) FFT1 / ICT5 Squad Bosses, (12) FFT2 Crew Members, (4) Utility ATV's with skid units and (4) Type 6 Engines. Additional Information: Seifert's can now provide NWCG Training as a member and through the National Wildfire Suppression Association. We offer basic through 400 level courses and can help you complete all your task books. Please visit our Website link to view all of the services we provide and remember, Seifert's Field & Forest LLC is all about “When Experience Counts.”

Tallgrass Restoration, LLC

Contact Name: Jordan Rowe Address: 3129 E County Road N, Milton, WI 53563 Phone: 608-531-1768 Email address: info@tallgrassrestoration.com Website: www.tallgrassrestoration.com Service area: Wisconsin (statewide), Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri Services offered: Site inspection, acquisition of state and local permits, preparation of detailed, fiscally responsible burn plans, safe execution on burns of any scale (from ¼ acre back yards to natural areas hundreds of acres in size). Additional information: Tallgrass Restoration, LLC is in compliance with the Illinois Prescribed Fire Act and fully licensed, bonded and insured. Their trained ecologists safely execute burns on any scale. They use fire in woodlands, wetlands, and prairies to manage invasive species while promoting native vegetation. Tallgrass Restoration specializes in prairie and habitat installation/restoration, invasive species management and reducing erosion.

TGF Forestry & Fire

Contact name: Tom Flader Address: 530 North Avenue, Libertyville, IL 60048 Phone: 847-968-2524 Email address: tomf@tgfforestryandfire.com Website: www.tgfforestryandfire.com Service area: Midwest Region Services offered: Prescribed fire management, prescribed burning of wetlands, meadows, conservancys, wooded areas, etc. Contract wildland firefighting—Provide type 6 and type 7 wildland fire engines, water tender, ATV's. Engine standby service – TGF can provide a staffed wildland fire engine crew to assist other prescribed burn agencies or companies for immediate assistance in escape fires, holding firelines, etc. Brush and filed mowing, tree removal, and land clearing.

Wild Mountain Fire and Forestry, Inc

Contact Name: Neal K. Brown Address: PO Box 65, 1739 S HWY 89a Kanab, UT 84741 Phone number: 877-890-1168 Email address: nkbrown@wildmountainfire.com Website: http://www.wildmountainfire.com Service area: National Services Offered: Full NWCG USFS / BLM /NPS Trained Prescribed Fire Overhead including RXB2, RXB2-T, 3 FEMO's, 2 Firing Boss's, 3 Holding Boss's (Single Resource's) 1 Type 2 Safety Officer, Logistics Chief, and crews. 1 Type 3 Tactical Water Tender, 1 Type 6 Engine, 1 Yamaha Rhino w/ Water, 2 polaris 4-wheelers, 12 Drip Torches, and other misc. Firing Device's, 1 Tracked Skid Steer w/ mastication, grapple and bucket, 1 12” bandit chipper, 3 crew truck, and 6 stihl 046 chainsaws. We can also prepare any burn plan, GIS Mapping, Pre and Post Burn Monitoring any and all media contacts, line prep, and ops. WMFF hold $1,000,000.00 Professional Liability and $5,000,000.00 of General Liability.

USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service (Not a contractor)

Contact Name: District Conservationists Address: local county NRCS office Website: www.wi.nrcs.usda.gov Service Area: All states in the Midwest have local NRCS offices Additional Information: The Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program provides financial assistance for prescribed burning, burn plan development, and fire break installation in order to restore/manage habitats for declining wildlife species. NRCS reimburses the participant for practices completed. Reimbursements are either a flat rate payment or 75% of the actual cost not to exceed the allowed maximum. Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) participants may be required to burn their enrolled land for mid-contract management. $40/acre cost share is provided through the Farm Service Agency.

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