FEDERAL & PRIVATE FOREST EXPERIENCE

Who is Flexilis Forestry?

6 decades of experience.

Flexilis Forestry LLC started in August 2017. Joe Reddan had just retired from the USDA Forest Service after a 40+ year career that began in South Fork, Colorado. South West Colorado and Northern New Mexico have abundant private forest lands where consulting forestry management advice could make a difference for the property owner and their neighbors.

Flexilis Forestry LLC specializes in serving the Family Forest Land Owner with management advice and services designed to deliver a full range of options for the Family Forest. Flexilis Forestry LLC seeks to understand the beliefs, values, and attitudes of the Family Forest Land Owner’s possessorship of their forest.

Flexilis Forestry LLC can provide through the preparation of a forest management plan, a reduction in real estate property taxes, incentive payments for forest practices, obtaining American Tree Farm System(R) (ATFS) membership, and the fulfillment of your dreams and desires in the stewardship of your forest holdings. Have you imagined your land with abundant wildlife from songbirds to deer and elk? Have you imagined a series of trails to wander around your property? Have you imagined a private forest that when wildfire strikes does not jump into the crowns of your trees but burn benignly with 2′ to 4′ flame lengths? Have you imagined your own “Garden of Eden?”

If you have dreamed all of these dreams and desires, then let Flexilis Forestry fulfill your dreams and more.

With 46 years of professional forest management experience in the federal and private forest sector, Joe Reddan and Flexilis Forestry can be your forest management consultant.

Joe is a 42-year member of the Society of American Foresters (SAF) the international gold standard of professional forestry. In 2020, Joe was recognized as a “Fellow” by SAF. When Joe was eligible after his retirement from Federal service, he joined the Association of Consulting Foresters (ACF) the gold standard of forestry consultants.

Flexilis Forestry carries the full range of insurances needed to successfully protect clients and the company.

Whether you are a long-term Family Forest owner or a beginner Family Forest Landowner, Flexilis Forestry LLC is the answer to your consulting needs. Call Now.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT

from a Consulting Forester

A Consulting Forester is an independent professional who assists forest landowners in the management of their forests.

To help forest landowners achieve the goals and objectives for their forested property, the Consulting Forester uses their knowledge of: forest science, forest ecology, wildlife biology, soil science, local markets and contractors, forest landowner assistance programs and most importantly, forest landowner client’s desires and values for successful forest conservation outcomes.

Consulting Foresters are fiduciaries.  Investment in forest land is an opportunity and as with any opportunity that investment can devolve into a cost.  Just as with investments in mutual funds, stocks, bonds and other market investments, forest land ownership can yield gains or losses for the owner investor.  The Consulting Forester serving as a fiduciary, has an obligation of specific duties to the person or persons who they are representing.  These specific fiduciary duties include: 

  • Loyalty is the most fundamental fiduciary duty a Consulting Forester owes to the Principal. The duty obligates the Consulting Forester to act at all times, solely in the best interests of the Principal, excluding all other interests.

  • A Consulting Forester is obligated to promptly and efficiently obey all lawful instructions of the Principal that conform to the purpose of the agency relationship. However, the duty does not include an obligation to obey unlawful instructions, such as instructions to not comply with Colorado State Best Management Practices.

  • A Consulting Forester must disclose to the Principal all known relevant and material information that pertains to the scope of the agency. The duty includes any facts affecting the value or desirability of the forested property.

  • A Consulting Forester is obligated to safeguard his/her Principal’s lawful confidences and secrets. Therefore, any request for information about the Principal’s forested property would not be shared with any third party without the written consent of the Principal.

  • A Consulting Forester is obligated to use reasonable care and diligence when pursuing the Principal’s affairs. The standard of care expected of a Principal’s Consulting Forester is that of a competent forest and natural resource management professional. By reason of their qualifications and experience, the Consulting Forester is considered to have skill and expertise in forest land management matters superior to that of the average person.

  • A Consulting Forester is obligated to account for all money or property that belongs to his/her Principal entrusted to that agent. The duty compels a Consulting Forester to safeguard any money, deeds, or other documents entrusted to them relative to their client’s transactions of affairs.

Contact

joe@flexilisforestry.com
(970) 341-1515

TSP#: 18-22364
Tree Farm Inspector #168296
California RPF #3187