Wildland Forestry & Environmental, Inc.

Wildland Forestry & Environmental, Inc. Natural Resource Consulting: Forest Management, Wildlife Habitat enhancement, Ecosystem Restoration, Comprehensive land management consultant and contractor.

Specialize in wildlife habitat improvement, prescribed fire, and sustainable forestry, but also provide traditional timber management services. Additional products include prairie establishment, land-use tax plans, recreation enhancements, and ecosystem restoration.

This is an example of a land owner who understands stewardship.
04/23/2026

This is an example of a land owner who understands stewardship.

Landowners: Fight for your objectives- you bought your property with your money and you pay the taxes on it. Sure, you'...
03/13/2026

Landowners: Fight for your objectives- you bought your property with your money and you pay the taxes on it. Sure, you're calling in outside professionals to help get things done and you're probably getting state or federal cost-share to help pay for projects. At any point, you're likely to have someone tell you that they "can't" do something. Maybe they know more than you and have good reason to talk you out of an activity- listen to their reasoning and ask questions to understand. Sometimes though, the 'expert' is just stuck in a process rut and doesn't want to expend the mental energy to do something progressive. In those cases, thank them for their opinion, cut them loose, and find a more enthusiastic land professional that wants to work for you. Earlier this week, we came up with a slight change to a reforestation plan (trade loblolly for shortleaf pine) for a newer landowner that will likely change the management strategy moving forward and pay huge dividends in wildlife habitat productivity in perpetuity. When this was politely suggested, the tree-planting contractor would have none of it, complained to the county forester (cost-share administrator) and threatened to walk off the job over this rather small modification. It's a hard situation, but if the roles are ever reversed, I hope that our clients have enough self-respect to fire us rather than allow us to talk them into something they really don't want.

The PR team made a short visit to the Southern Farm Show. Lots of new equipment and parts suppliers for farmers and lan...
02/05/2026

The PR team made a short visit to the Southern Farm Show. Lots of new equipment and parts suppliers for farmers and landowners. Good representative from various state agencies on conservation programs and services. Talked with The Society of Saint Andrews for a bit. If you know a farm producer who has some odds and ends that they want a good home for, this organization would make a great partner. https://endhunger.org/

Using big things to help out the little things. 32" tulip-poplar marked for harvest to increase herbaceous understory an...
09/08/2025

Using big things to help out the little things. 32" tulip-poplar marked for harvest to increase herbaceous understory and a 40 liter drone selective herbicide application on 5yo saplings and blackberry to create a piedmont oak savanna. Shaggy blazing star blooming in an old field edge

Very busy week: Habitat improvement timber harvest, 2 deer forage burns, 2 savanna maintenance burn, and 2 consults. On ...
08/30/2025

Very busy week: Habitat improvement timber harvest, 2 deer forage burns, 2 savanna maintenance burn, and 2 consults. On Wednesday, we had crew in 3 different counties. Wrapped it up by letting the landowner pay me to watch him do the work...that's not the way this is supposed to work!

Wildlife managers often use agronomic crop plants to attract game species like turkey, deer, rabbits, and bobwhite quail...
05/27/2025

Wildlife managers often use agronomic crop plants to attract game species like turkey, deer, rabbits, and bobwhite quail. In addition, much time and money is spent to keep land from turning into forest (mowing, herbicide application, planting). Prior to European settlement and the subsequent "taming" of the wilderness, many areas looked more like unkept pastures rather than shadowy old-growth forests that we often think of. A combination of long-term processes such as grazing by large herbivores (bison and elk) and natural lightning fires yielded open savannas. In addition, the resident Native American cultures routinely burned the landscape in order to improve game forage, increase travel efficiency, reduce parasites, and encourage food-bearing plant species. These photos are from a 3000-acre site in the central piedmont of NC that is managed primarily with fire. No mowers, no disking, very scant use of selective herbicide, and no planting (after the initial restoration). Look closely, there is more than just grass and scrubby trees- the fire supports a robust array of native wildflowers that bloom from late February to mid-November. The annual costs to maintain such a functional and productive ecosystem at this scale is less than 1/8th of what most "habitat managers" spend on relative acreage basis. Habitat doesn't need to come in a bag and it's great when you don't have to do something every year.

Some professionals say that "burn season" is over....but what's that over there? It sounded a lot like hundreds of shrie...
04/22/2025

Some professionals say that "burn season" is over....but what's that over there? It sounded a lot like hundreds of shrieking sweetgums in a quail savanna (a beautiful melody in our humble opinion). Success was sweetened by witnessing a hen bobwhite flush across the firebreak while patrolling. This unit was originally planned for a July Growing-season burn, but we felt that the saplings were too dense for that to work. The client was excited to get some brood-rearing cover refreshed...it was getting pretty woolley.

There's a lot of public confusion in regards to why prescribed fire practitioners are conducting controllled burns at th...
01/31/2025

There's a lot of public confusion in regards to why prescribed fire practitioners are conducting controllled burns at the same time that there are brush fires in the same region. First off, we aren't burning a pile of leaves or even only 5 acres. To effectively complete a 50-150 acre prescribed fire between 11am and 3pm (to allow good smoke dispersion in January), we need conditions that support fire movement. This overlaps conditions when wildland fires are possible. Secondly, we are prepared for the wind and we know the fuels around us, which is a completely different scenario from a wildfire in an unplanned area. By putting on the ground, we are reducing the threat of wildfires on the landscape by refreshing firebreaks and removing fuels. Southeastern plant communities historically benefitted from repetitive fire, please consider helping restore some of these diminishing ecosystems by talking to a professional about fire management on your property.

While the "ops crew" was conducting a fuel reduction longleaf burn in eastern Moore County, the "planning team" was scou...
01/04/2025

While the "ops crew" was conducting a fuel reduction longleaf burn in eastern Moore County, the "planning team" was scouting upcoming units 15 miles to the northwest. This upland savanna was prescribed burned 1.5 years ago in May 2023. All of the longleaf pine and post oak in the foreground are volunteers (no artificial planting) despite a 1-3 year regular fire return interval (FRI) and xeric sandy soils. This cover type supports populations of prickly pear cactus, grayhairy wild indigo, roundhead lespedeza, splitbeard bluestem, and sky-blue lupine; all of which are significantly more scarce in the nearby fire-maintained longleaf forests.

Wow, a super week here at WFE: Checked on 2 habitat improvement timber harvests, 3 days of across 5 different units in...
12/07/2024

Wow, a super week here at WFE: Checked on 2 habitat improvement timber harvests, 3 days of across 5 different units in 4 counties, 2 productive landowner meetings, evaluated progress on a prairie restoration, scheduled visits on 3 new properties next week, and installed several thousand feet of management trail for an existing client.

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Madison, NC

Opening Hours

Monday 6am - 10pm
Tuesday 6am - 10pm
Wednesday 6am - 10pm
Thursday 6am - 10pm
Friday 6am - 10pm
Saturday 8am - 6pm
Sunday 1pm - 5pm

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+19194148046

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