What began with a smokejumper and a portable sawmill in 1979 has evolved into one of the largest and most diverse wildfire suppression and forest restoration companies in the United States. Grayback Forestry Inc., has five strategic locations that greatly increase our ability to mobilize resources quickly and provide efficient and effective service for our valued customers.

We send personnel and equipment resources all over the nation to fight wildfires and perform restoration treatments such as prescribed burning and forest thinning as well as other restoration methods.

Grayback is a founding member of the National Wildfire Suppression Association, through which we provide nationally recognized forestry and Wildland Fire Suppression training.

Robust Services for Fire and Forest Management

Wildfire Suppression

Wildfire suppression includes a range of firefighting tactics used to contain and extinguish wildfires. Firefighting efforts in wild land areas require different techniques, equipment, and training from the more familiar structure firefighting found in populated areas.

Grayback’s wildfire-trained crews suppress flames, construct fire lines, and extinguish flames and areas of heat to protect resources, forests, rangelands and natural wilderness. Wildfire suppression tactics are used to protect the wildland-urban interface, where populated areas border with wild land areas.

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Prescribed Fire

Prescribed fire an environmentally sound practice used to bring our forests back to a more historical fire resilient state.

After many years of fire exclusion, an ecosystem that needs periodic fire becomes unhealthy.

Trees are stressed by overcrowding; fire-dependent species disappear; and flammable fuels build up and become hazardous. Prescribe fire reduces hazardous fuels, protecting human communities from extreme fires.

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Hazardous Fuels Management

Fuels management projects reduce the risk of catastrophic wildland fire while restoring forest and rangeland ecosystems to closely resemble their natural state.

Hazardous fuels are reduced through a variety of treatments that remove or modify wildland fuels, thereby reducing the potential for severe wildland fire behavior, lessening post-fire damage, and limiting the spread of invasive species and diseases. 

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Restoration & Forestry Management

Grayback has provided reforestation and mechanical thinning services since 1979. Our forestry services include tree planting, precommercial thinning, animal damage control, roadside brushing, chipping, cone collection, mastication, broadcast burning and commercial thinning. We provide well trained and professional crews delivering a quality product to our customers.

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Mobile Mix Systems Gel Plants and Helicopter Dip Tank 

Grayback Forestry has been the industry leader in supporting Incident Command teams during firing operations, structure protection and mop up operations. With our professionally trained team, we are equipped to assist with Mobile Mix Systems (MMS) for all helicopter, fixed wing aircraft, and ground operations.

We also provide rigid steel helicopter dip tank ranging in sizes from 5000 to 10,500 gallons.

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Disaster & Camp Support Services

We have provided support equipment and personnel to state and federal agencies, FEMA, power companies and private customers for nearly 20 years.  We have responded to emergency situations such as: wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and search and rescue efforts.

Our services include mobile shower units, ADA showers, potable water trucks, greywater trucks, mobile hand wash sinks, noxious weed wash units, large tents, and generators

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Home Protection & Defensible Space

Grayback provides protection for homes, commercial buildings, and vegetation when wildfires descend upon communities. Applying fire suppressant gel and class A foams to pretreat homes, buildings and vegetation for protection against advancing wildfires.  

When strategically applied gel and foam provide a long-lasting barrier against flames and burning embers. These products are much more effective than just plain water for protection against fire. We use fire engines and tactical tenders to apply products.

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