Born of a passion to improve

Western landscapes and

enhance natural habitats.

Born of a passion to improve

Western Landscapes and

enhance natural habitats.

Born of a passion to improve

Western Landscapes and

enhance natural habitats.

Born of a passion to improve Western landscapes and enhance natural habitats.

We understand from experience what it takes to employ conservation-minded management practices, maintain healthy wildlife populations, and enhance long-term productive habitats for generations to come. SLM is a division of Old Growth Tree Service.

We understand from experience what it takes to employ conservation-minded management practices, maintain healthy wildlife populations, and enhance long-term productive habitats for generations to come. SLM is a division of Old Growth Tree Service.

Our passion

is habitat.

Our passion

is habitat.

Our focus is

Our focus is

service.

service.

Our commitment to habitat and natural environments conserves and actively enriches ecosystems vital for wildlife and fisheries. At SLM, we intertwine expert resource management with innovative practices to cultivate thriving habitats, ensuring biodiversity and ecological balance.

Our Services

Specialized Land Management provides integrated solutions that foster sustainability, biodiversity, and resilience across ecosystems. Our services range from forestry and habitat enhancement to soil and water conservation, and agricultural support, addressing the unique needs of both natural and managed landscapes. We prioritize eco-friendly practices in weed control and fire mitigation to safeguard property and enhance habitat. With a focus on innovation and sustainability, SLM is dedicated to promoting healthy ecosystems and partnering with our clients to achieve their conservation and land management goals.

Our passion

is habitat.

Our passion is habitat.

Our focus is service.

Our commitment to habitat and natural environments conserves and actively enriches ecosystems vital for wildlife and fisheries. At SLM, we intertwine expert resource management with innovative practices to cultivate thriving habitats, ensuring biodiversity and ecological balance.

Our commitment to habitat and natural environments conserves and actively enriches ecosystems vital for wildlife and fisheries. At SLM, we intertwine expert resource management with innovative practices to cultivate thriving habitats, ensuring biodiversity and ecological balance.

Our Services

Specialized Land Management provides integrated solutions that foster sustainability, biodiversity, and resilience across ecosystems. Our services range from forestry and habitat enhancement to soil and water conservation, and agricultural support, addressing the unique needs of both natural and managed landscapes. We prioritize eco-friendly practices in weed control and fire mitigation to safeguard property and enhance habitat. With a focus on innovation and sustainability, SLM is dedicated to promoting healthy ecosystems and partnering with our clients to achieve their conservation and land management goals.

Specialized Land Management provides integrated solutions that foster sustainability, biodiversity, and resilience across ecosystems. Our services range from forestry and habitat enhancement to soil and water conservation, and agricultural support, addressing the unique needs of both natural and managed landscapes. We prioritize eco-friendly practices in weed control and fire mitigation to safeguard property and enhance habitat. With a focus on innovation and sustainability, SLM is dedicated to promoting healthy ecosystems and partnering with our clients to achieve their conservation and land management goals.

Timber & Forestry Management

We balance ecological, economic, and cultural values through our forestry management and timber services. From timber management plans to habitat enhancement, our strategies promote healthy natural regenerative processes.

Habitat Enhancement

Our commitment to habitat and natural environments conserves and actively enriches ecosystems vital for our wildlife and fisheries. Our approach intertwines expert resource management with innovative practices to encourage thriving habitats, ensuring biodiversity and ecological balance.

Soil & Water Conservation

Soil health is the foundation of all land-based life. Our team of experts employs a range of sustainable, proven practices to ensure the health and longevity of your land. Through planning, monitoring, and managing soil health, we support plant biodiversity, extend growing seasons, and provide more forage for both domestic and wild animals-all while enhancing the overall aesthetic of your property.

Agricultural Services

Specialized Land Management offers a comprehensive suite of agricultural services designed to maximize productivity and sustainability. We leverage a mix of old world wisdom and modern science to create tailored solutions for domestic livestock and horses, implementing efficient irrigation systems, controlling erosion, and much more.

Noxious Weed Management

We offer comprehensive Weed Management services that efficiently control and prevent weed proliferation in order to enhance crop yield and quality by reducing competition for nutrients, water, and sunlight. We leverage both mechanical and chemical treatments based on best practices and leading-edge science in plant health care to effectively control targeted species of weeds and invasive plants. Our tailor-made solutions help preserve native plant species and biodiversity, reduce habitat for pests and disease, and maintain the aesthetic and functional value of your land.

Fire Mitigation

Our fire mitigation services help minimize risks and enhance resilience against wildfires through fuel reduction, fire breaks, structure protection, and the creation of defensible space. Our proactive approach helps ensure the safeguarding of lives, property, and natural resources.

About

Specialized Land Management is a division of Old Growth Tree Service and partners with residential, agricultural, commercial, and government clients throughout Colorado and the surrounding states to help them manage their natural resources. With humble beginnings in 2021 as a small team focused on fire mitigation, our company and capabilities have grown significantly in response to an incredible demand for our services. What started as three people and one machine has scaled into a highly-skilled team of nearly 20 and a fleet of carefully chosen equipment that allows us to work safely and efficiently on nearly any terrain, tackling the toughest projects. We specialize in wildfire risk mitigation, habitat enhancement, and land resource management. Our hallmark customer-centered approach combines old world wisdom with modern science to provide sustainable solutions tailored to your specific needs.

As a company, we strive to provide our employees with a great work environment and equip them with the tools, training, and knowledge they need to grow personally and professionally. Everything we do is driven by our company’s five Core Values of Integrity, Respect, Teamwork, Training & Knowledge, and Quality & Customer Service.

Why choose SLM

Areas of service

Our team

Equipment & Capabilities

Reviews

Matt communicated very well with CSFS foresters as well as with landowners. This project had a variety of timber types and the treatment on all was top notch. I can say without hesitation that the CSFS and landowners are very pleased with the work completed.

J.T. Shaver
Colorado State Forest Service

Old Growth Tree Service completed 2,600 acres of hazardous fuels mitigation projects
throughout Eagle County during 2023. There were a variety of scopes and specifications for the projects across the county, and Specialized Land Management left behind products that Eagle Valley Wildland and homeowners were pleased with. They were a pleasure to work with throughout the process and we look forward to working with them on fuels management projects

Hugh Fairfield-Smith
Eagle Valley Wildland

It is hard to imagine that a better team could have been assembled to tackle and complete this
Project.

John Mosher
Landowner, Gypsum, CO

From first contact through completion of the project, Matt and the SLM team provided the highest levels of quality and service and inspired confidence that they were the right people for the job. They have the knowledge, expertise, and tools to perform this type of work safely and efficiently, and they were very easy to do business with. Our project was completed on time and on budget, and I am extremely pleased with the result. I would happily use Old Growth Tree Service again should the need arise and recommend them without reservation.

Ian Carney
Ranch Development LLC

I have worked with Matt for the past few years with Beetle kill mitigation on our 80 acre property in Eagle, Colorado. Our most recent project involved mitigation of 500 dead and infected trees from a steep hillside. My husband and I could not have been happier with the professionalism that went into this project.

Sue Johanning
Landowner, Eagle, CO

About

Specialized Land Management is a division of Old Growth Tree Service and partners with residential, agricultural, commercial, and government clients throughout Colorado and the surrounding states to help them manage their natural resources. With humble beginnings in 2021 as a small team focused on fire mitigation, our company and capabilities have grown significantly in response to an incredible demand for our services. What started as three people and one machine has scaled into a highly-skilled team of nearly 20 and a fleet of carefully chosen equipment that allows us to work safely and efficiently on nearly any terrain, tackling the toughest projects. We specialize in wildfire risk mitigation, habitat enhancement, and land resource management. Our hallmark customer-centered approach combines old world wisdom with modern science to provide sustainable solutions tailored to your specific needs.

As a company, we strive to provide our employees with a great work environment and equip them with the tools, training, and knowledge they need to grow personally and professionally. Everything we do is driven by our company’s five Core Values of Integrity, Respect, Teamwork, Training & Knowledge, and Quality & Customer Service.

Specialized Land Management is a division of Old Growth Tree Service and partners with residential, agricultural, commercial, and government clients throughout Colorado and the surrounding states to help them manage their natural resources. With humble beginnings in 2021 as a small team focused on fire mitigation, our company and capabilities have grown significantly in response to an incredible demand for our services. What started as three people and one machine has scaled into a highly-skilled team of nearly 20 and a fleet of carefully chosen equipment that allows us to work safely and efficiently on nearly any terrain, tackling the toughest projects. We specialize in wildfire risk mitigation, habitat enhancement, and land resource management. Our hallmark customer-centered approach combines old world wisdom with modern science to provide sustainable solutions tailored to your specific needs.

As a company, we strive to provide our employees with a great work environment and equip them with the tools, training, and knowledge they need to grow personally and professionally. Everything we do is driven by our company’s five Core Values of Integrity, Respect, Teamwork, Training & Knowledge, and Quality & Customer Service.

Why choose SLM

Areas of service

Our team

Equipment & Capabilities

Reviews

Matt communicated very well with CSFS foresters as well as with landowners. This project had a variety of timber types and the treatment on all was top notch. I can say without hesitation that the CSFS and landowners are very pleased with the work completed.

J.T. Shaver
Colorado State Forest Service

Old Growth Tree Service completed 2,600 acres of hazardous fuels mitigation projects
throughout Eagle County during 2023. There were a variety of scopes and specifications for the projects across the county, and Specialized Land Management left behind products that Eagle Valley Wildland and homeowners were pleased with. They were a pleasure to work with throughout the process and we look forward to working with them on fuels management projects

Hugh Fairfield-Smith
Eagle Valley Wildland

It is hard to imagine that a better team could have been assembled to tackle and complete this
Project.

John Mosher
Landowner, Gypsum, CO

From first contact through completion of the project, Matt and the SLM team provided the highest levels of quality and service and inspired confidence that they were the right people for the job. They have the knowledge, expertise, and tools to perform this type of work safely and efficiently, and they were very easy to do business with. Our project was completed on time and on budget, and I am extremely pleased with the result. I would happily use Old Growth Tree Service again should the need arise and recommend them without reservation.

Ian Carney
Ranch Development LLC

I have worked with Matt for the past few years with Beetle kill mitigation on our 80 acre property in Eagle, Colorado. Our most recent project involved mitigation of 500 dead and infected trees from a steep hillside. My husband and I could not have been happier with the professionalism that went into this project.

Sue Johanning
Landowner, Eagle, CO