Walk it first
Every project starts on the property. We look at access, slope, species, timber, structures, and what you want the land to do once the brush is down.
About Us
The mechanical forestry contractor for Southern Indiana's un-glaciated hills.
Who we are
Straker Fire & Forestry is a forestry mulching operation based in Brown County, Indiana. We service South-Central and Southern Indiana.
We are the contractor with the equipment for this terrain. Steep-angle, remote-access, and hazardous-conditions forestry mulching, wildland fire fuel work, and responsible land clearing on hills, hollows, creek banks, lake edges, and dam walls.
Forestry work we conduct: responsible land clearing, invasive species removal, and timber stand improvement.
Wildland fire preparation and defense is mechanical fuel conversion. We strategically turn wildfire fuels into surface mulch to create fuel and fire breaks, defensible space, and access to homes and water supplies. We do not light burns.
We work residential, commercial, and utility jobs. Homeowners and landowners, businesses and developments, and utility corridors and rights-of-way. You get a clear plan, honest timing, and a crew that treats the property like it will be in our family 20 years from now.
How we work
Walk it. Mulch it. Leave it usable.
Mulch in place
The forestry mulcher grinds brush and ladder fuels where they stand, including steep slopes and high-hazard access. Material stays on the ground as mulch instead of being piled and burned.
Leave it usable
You get open woods, a walkable understory, crop trees that can grow, and wildland fire preparation: fuel and fire breaks, defensible space, and access to the home and to water.
The hills other machines leave
Based in Brown County, we work the unglaciated hills: steep oak-hickory ridges, tight hollows, and ground other machines leave alone. If the slope, the access, or the hazard is why the job has not been done, that is the work we take. Travel beyond neighboring counties is considered by job size and season.
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