We replace the invasive annual grasses that drive California's fire cycle with native plant communities — and certify the result with a survey-grade, tamper-evident record of every plant, every season. Restoration you can underwrite, permit against, and bank.
Invasive annual grasses are a wildfire accelerant — they raise fine-fuel loads, dry out early, and carry fire farther and faster. And every acre cleared to bare soil is an acre they recolonize first.
Annual grasses like wild oat increase fine-fuel load and continuity while lowering moisture — measurably raising both fire occurrence and frequency across US ecoregions.
Today's vegetation contractors mow, masticate, and burn — then leave bare, disturbed ground. That's exactly the condition invasive grass colonizes fastest. The risk returns within a season, and the invoice returns every year.
Insurers, regulators, and mitigation programs increasingly pay for verified outcomes — but the industry has no ground-truth record showing work was completed and maintained. Photos and invoices don't survive an audit or an actuary.
One continuous service across oak woodland, grassland, and chaparral — from first site survey to a certified, season-over-season record of fire-resilient land.
We map existing vegetation, clear invasive annual grasses, suppress regrowth, and plant fire-resilient California natives — each plant tagged with a survey-grade RTK position at planting.
Every plant enters an append-only ledger: species, centimeter-class coordinates, condition, and date. Drone surveys re-observe each plant across seasons. Nothing is ever overwritten — the history is the proof.
Seasonal monitoring flags invasive regrowth against known plant locations before it re-establishes. Buyers get a standing, auditable record that mitigation was completed — and is still holding.
Satellite and aerial detection tell you where risk might be. Our ledger records what's actually in the ground — plant by plant, season by season — with the properties that risk instruments, mitigation credits, and compliance reviews demand.
RTK GNSS field capture with fix-quality gating, tied to PPK drone orthomosaics for authoritative coordinates — not consumer GPS guesses.
Observations are immutable rows, never edits. Current state is derived from history, so the record can't be quietly rewritten — which is what makes it auditable.
The ledger doesn't just show work happened. It shows survival, establishment, and reduced fuel conditions over time — the evidence layer parametric insurance and mitigation banking are built on.
If your business depends on demonstrating that land was restored and stayed restored, we deliver both the work and the evidence.
Per-plant establishment records give agencies verifiable success metrics instead of years of contested monitoring reports — accelerating credit release and time-to-permit.
Certified mitigation records and season-over-season fuel-condition data — the verification layer that parametric wildfire products and community-level discounts need to price.
Convert a recurring clearing expense into a documented, fire-resilient asset — with an audit trail regulators and wildfire mitigation plans can cite.
Restoration that lowers real fire behavior on your ground — plus the records that support insurance conversations, disclosures, and long-term stewardship.
Our demonstration site is a 12-acre oak woodland property in Mariposa County in the Sierra foothills — degraded by invasive wild oat, now being restored plant by plant under the same ledger we sell. Every method we bring to your land is proven on ours.
Peer-reviewed research shows invasive annual grasses increase fire occurrence and frequency across US ecoregions, while native perennials hold more moisture, carry less fine fuel, and slow spread. California's own analysis puts the return at $3.75 saved for every $1 spent on wildfire prevention. We turn that evidence into acreage — and into records.
Fusco, E.J. et al. (2019). "Invasive grasses increase fire occurrence and frequency across US ecoregions." PNAS 116(47). · California Governor's Office wildfire prevention ROI analysis.
We're taking on a limited number of pilot sites and design partners across California. Tell us about your land, your corridor, or your risk book, and we'll walk the ground with you.
Email us — andrew@nabermail.com