Tanglefoot Forestry Consultants Ltd. plans and develops Wildland Urban Interface treatments for several different communities.


Tanglefoot collaboratively works with municipalities and R.W Gray Consulting Ltd.  to propose environmentally and econimal appropriate treatments to reduce wildfire risks.  Duties include:

  • Initial, pre-treatment surveys
  • Determine fuel hazard and field layout of treatment units
  • Develop and implement Stand Treatment Prescriptions
  • Prepare and apply for funding from government agencies for treatment applications
  • Supervise treatments which include:
    • Stand harvesting
    • Stand thinning
    • Mechanical mastication
    • Prescribed burn
    • Understory removal, piling and burning
    • Chipping