Bird Dog Fire & Land Management, Inc.
About Bird Dog Fire & Land Management, Inc.
Bird Dog Fire and Land Management describes itself as an all-in-one land management provider specialising in wildfire prevention in the wildland urban interface, fuels reduction, invasive species management and mechanical thinning. It says it has been offering fire suppression services since 2015, with staff carrying more than thirty years of experience around the country, and that its traditional work has been engine crews running type six, type five and type four engines plus UTVs. It is worth being clear about what this firm is: a fire and fuels contractor rather than a consulting forester. Nothing it publishes offers timber cruising, timber sale administration, appraisal, forest inventory or management plan writing. What it does publish, in its own headings, is prescribed burning — turnkey or as assistance to a landowner's own burn — along with mechanical fuel reduction, defensible space work, right-of-way clearing, fireline and firebreak construction, brush removal and exotic species control on the wildland urban interface side; land clearing, hunting lanes, food plots, path restoration, slash reduction, field and path mowing and pile burning on the land management side; initial attack, mop-up and water handling equipment on wildfire response; and maintenance, mowing and fuels reduction for mitigation banks. Storm debris cleaning and pile burning is one project type it shows. It also teaches, listing the NWCG courses it runs: ICS-100 and ICS-200, S-130, S-190, S-215, S-290, L-180 and an annual arduous pack test with refresher. The recognition it publishes for itself is 8(a) certification, recognition by the State of Florida as a minority business, and Better Business Bureau accreditation, which it states carries an A+ BBB rating. Carlos Gutierrez is named as CEO, office hours are 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday, and the site publishes no address or service area of its own — the forty Florida counties on this listing come from the firm's own filing with the Florida Forest Service. (source: birddogfire.com, read 23 September 2026)
Can they handle a timber sale?
Selling standing timber properly takes three things. Here's what the state register credits this firm with.
Timber AppraisalAn estimate of what your standing timber is worth in dollars, based on how much there is, its quality, and current prices. When you are selling, settling an estate, dividing property, or need a value for taxes or insurance.What does this mean? → — not listed
works out what your standing timber is worth
Timber Cruise & Volume EstimateA field measurement of your standing trees — their species, sizes, and quality — that adds up to how much wood you actually have. Before you sell, so you go in knowing roughly what is out there rather than taking a buyer's word for it.What does this mean? → — not listed
measures and grades what's actually out there
Timber Sale & Contract AdministrationRunning the sale for you: advertising the timber, taking bids, writing the contract, and overseeing the logging so the agreed terms are met. When you want someone on your side handling the whole sale rather than dealing with buyers and loggers yourself.What does this mean? → — not listed
runs the sale and handles the contract
This firm isn't credited with all three, which doesn't make it a worse forester — plenty specialise in management planning, wildlife or wetlands. It does mean that if your goal is to sell timber, you'd likely need someone else for the part that's missing.
Everything they're registered for
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