El Dorado County Defensible Space and Land Clearing Systems

Serving The Greater El Dorado County Are Including: Placerville,El Dorado HIlls,Cameron Park, Latrobe, Shingle Springs, Rescue, Diamond Springs, Somerset, Camino, Pollock Pines, Garden Valley, Georgetown, Cool. Specializing in defensible space clearing, brush mulching, and berry removal.  Our forestry mulching machines obliterate vegetation quickly and with minimal soil disturbance. The "Mulching Method" leaves behind a layer of beneficial mulch that promotes healthy habitat recovery in multiple ways. Not only does mulch help prevent erosion of the soil, but it seals in moisture and nutrients, helping native grasses and desirable trees (like oaks) get the elements they need to flourish. Mastication is a fuel reduction treatment method used in forestry management to reduce wildfire risk, to reduce fuel loadings by returning the forest to natural conditions.  Mastication can assist in removing some trees in the early stages, to allow the remaining trees to grow faster, stronger and larger. These guys did an amazing job. My 5 acres went from being an overgrown disaster to a beautiful piece of property - and so much more usable. They worked tirelessly and truly went above and beyond to make sure I was happy. Professional, hard-working, and very knowledgeable. I would 100% recommend them and would use them again in the future. I had such a great experience with this team. Not only did they do an amazing job but they are good people. Rich is very personable, trustworthy, with an amazing work ethic. His team is hardworking and I was so impressed with how quickly and diligently they worked. Rich exceeded my expectations on every aspect of the job from setting the appointment to completion in a very timely manner. I am beyond satisfied and highly recommend this company. I sleep better knowing my land is cleared in case of fire and it just looks amazing. They went above and beyond. Thank you! They Did an Excellant job! They were here around 6 a.m. every day for around a week or so and averaged 10 hour days while here. Richard has many years experience fighting fires as a fire Captain and so has the knowledge and experience to maximize protection of our property from wildfire events. Our 14 acres was just completed and looks completely different. Not only is our property safe, it’s now beautiful. Richard and his team did an amazing job. They are very knowledgeable and answered all of our questions. It started as a small job but as they worked in an area we kept adding new areas for them to do. We feel ? % better about our safety during the upcoming fire season. We highly recommend Defensible Space and Land Clearing Systems. We just had these gentlemen from out to our six acres with great results. So happy to have made great improvements to our land. Excited now to be able to walk the property. They did such a wonderful job of keeping us informed about all the property improvements and they were willing to meet all of our needs and requests. Looking forward to keeping them as long term friends. Such professionalism and honesty. Thank you for doing such a great job! I had Rich and his team out to my property last week, they communicated well, were punctual, professional, hard working and safe. They run a legit operation, use all the safety gear that they should be, and do the job right. If your searching for someone to do any of the services they offer, stop searching, just call defensible space systems. We just hired them for 3 days of mastication work for fire safety clearing. Most of the manzanita is gone in the area surrounding our house and we’re a lot better prepared for when a fire comes through. Rich made sure it wasn’t a wasteland by clearing out ladder fuels and leaving oak, pine, cedar and fir trees. We’ll have them back in the spring to do some hand work the masticator couldn’t get to because of steepness. Richard has been wonderful to work with from the very first phone call! Asked about a quote on cleaning some property and he was out there within a few days with pictures, quote, etc. and very quick to answer questions. We were scheduled to go about two weeks out following our quote. He had a cancellation and brought his team to begin on our work. Calls made to clarify some things on our property and the cancellation was a blessing for us! My husband and I came to our property following the early 2 day start and are blown away! Our lot has never looked this good and it is not quite yet done! Our neighbor across the street made it a point to come and tell us how hard this crew worked for the 2 days they were here and how happy they (and others in our development) are to see the incredible amount of work done to clean up our property (has been a very long time since this has looked like this)! While we still have a little work to do, we cannot wait to see what this looks like when it is completely finished! Richard has been responsive, accommodating, and has kept us up-to-date on everything being done. Truly a transformation for us and we could not be happier! Grateful for this company, responsiveness, and dedication to getting done what we have felt to be an impossible task! Thank you for transforming the property at our home away from home!

Christina Bradbury
5 Star
We used Defensible Space for fire prevention clearing. We have almost 9 acres of oak and pine woodland on a fairly steep slope in the Sierra foothills. Defensible Space came out, walked our property, gave a lot of great recommendations, and then provided an estimate for work in a timely fashion. Their work was Reasonably priced, and the outcome was better than expected. We feel much safer thanks to Defensible Space. I would recommend them to my family and friends.
Friday 21st January 2022

Amanda Stevenson
5 Star
Absolutely wonderful land clearing company. Removed brush from almost three acres of property. Quick, reliable, friendly and responsive. Very easy to work with! Would hire them again for all of our tree removal needs.
Tuesday 28th December 2021

Saunseray cabillo
5 Star
What a tremendous team! If you are looking for knowledge, professionalism, and all around Human kindness, Defensible space is the company to call. Thanks to them we are poison oak tree, and fire safe.
Sunday 23rd January 2022

Amanda Stevenson
5 Star
Absolutely wonderful free mystification service. Super Friendly and kind. Easy to work with! 100% recommend.
Tuesday 28th December 2021