Silviculture

🌲 Silviculture Management – Forest Health Through Generational Stewardship

At TM Timbers, our silviculture management services are rooted in generations of experience working in Colorado’s forests. Silviculture—the science of controlling forest growth, composition, and health—guides our sustainable approach to timber harvesting, regeneration, and wildfire risk reduction.

We offer tailored silviculture plans for residential properties, ranches, commercial timberlands, and public lands, balancing economic value with ecological health.

Our services include:

Thinning for fire mitigation and forest health

Selective logging to promote diverse, resilient stands

Reforestation and natural regeneration support

Habitat improvement and species selection

Coordination with Firewise grants and landowner assistance programs

Whether managing a mountain estate or hundreds of acres of timberland, TM Timbers applies deep forestry knowledge to help landowners achieve long-term sustainability, improved wildfire resilience, and ecosystem balance.

Silviculture is the science and practice of managing the growth, composition, health, and quality of forests to meet diverse needs—whether for timber production, wildlife habitat, recreation, fire mitigation, or conservation.

Silviculture is how we take care of forests, using proven methods to make them healthier, safer, and more productive over time.

Photo Image: This model represents silvicultural options for maintaining landscape-level forest structures and age distributions similar to those that would exist under a natural disturbance regime. Structural cohorts (green bubbles) correspond to the various postfire stand successional stages, and silvicultural options (brown bubbles) are presented along a gradient of harvest intensity. This illustration is inspired and adapted from the principle of the multicohort model and the ASIO model (Angelstam, 1998; Bergeron et al., 2002)