About Us
Our Background
Knowledge and Skill at Work for You
Bring together our knowledge, skills, and experience to provide you with the utmost professional tree services in California.
In 1984, Mountain F. Enterprises, Inc. (MFE) was established in Lotus, California with the goal to provide customers with top-quality tree care. As a small residential tree service, it wasn’t long before Mountain Firewood (original name) realized it was time to expand into the firewood business. Four years later, the business blossomed into a full spectrum vegetation management business that specialized in providing services to a variety of customers including federal, state, and local agencies, municipalities, utility companies, timber companies, small landowners, and fire-safe councils.
In 2000, our business grew out of the residential tree service and firewood business to provide utility tree trimming and hazard tree removal services to the utility and commercial tree management industries. MFE with its highly skilled and professional personnel, top-of-the-line equipment, and a work ethic unprecedented in the industry, understand that professionalism and competitiveness are non-negotiable.
We believe that MFE is the most innovative and full-service line clearance contractor located in California. We offer utility companies and prime contractors the most economical and efficient methods of controlling unwanted vegetation within and along utility rights-of-ways.
We are not just about saws and trees. As MFE has grown through the years, so has our scope of work. In order to continuously meet the changing needs of our clients, we have had to branch out and provide other services such as site clearing, grubbing, road building, drilling holes for utility poles, and providing GIS services to mention a few. We have always stood up to the challenge which has led us to where we are today and what will lead us into the future.
Our wide range of equipment gives us the capability to handle almost any situation. Our size, broad experience, and technical resources give us the ability and flexibility to meet most requirements quickly, effectively, and safely. What separates us from other vegetation management companies is our reliability, cost, quality, and customer satisfaction.
MFE begins each project by acquiring a thorough understanding of our client’s objectives for their proposed project. Based on these objectives, MFE will prepare an intelligent, cost-effective proposal to meet the client’s goals and time schedule.
Our Qualifications
Licenses
- Licensed Tree Service (SCL #842929) with the California Contractors State License Board.
- Licensed Timber Operator (LTO #A8657) with the CALFIRE (formerly known as CDF).
- Licensed Pest Control Business (#0344700000) with the California Department of Pesticide Regulation.
Certified Prologger
MFE is a certified ProLogger Certified Logger. The ProLogger program is designed for professional timber harvesters in order to meet the educational needs of logging contractors. Secondarily the program seeks to meet the requirements of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative and similar forest land certification programs.
Minority Business Enterprise
MFE is certified as a Minority-owned Business Enterprise (MBE) by the California Public Utilities Commission’s (CPUC) independent certifying body, the Supplier Clearinghouse. Certification allows our firm to be listed as an eligible MBE provider in the Supplier Clearinghouse public database, which is accessible to utilities as well as privately owned companies. By accessing eligible providers through this public database, companies can more quickly meet their diversity goals. Certification also accelerates the contracting process between providers and procurement. Our company profile can be located in the Supplier Clearinghouse public database.
Our Representative Clients
Government Agencies (Federal & State)
- CALFIRE
- General Services Administration (GSA)
- US Forest Service (USFS)
- Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)
Municipalities
- City and County of San Francisco
- City of Brisbane
- City of Elk Grove
- City of Napa
- City of Santa Rosa
- City of Windsor
- County of Alameda
- County of Del Norte
- County of Placer
- County of Sonoma
- Nevada Irrigation District (NID)
Non-profit Organizations
- California Forest Foundation
- El Dorado County Fire Safe Council
Contractors
- Asplundh Tree Expert Co.
- Davey Tree
- Diversified Utility Services
- Ghilotti Brothers
- Ghilotti Construction
- Granite Construction
- Hanford ARC
- J.J. Albanese
- J.J.R. Construction, Inc.
- O.C. Jones & Sons
- Pavex Construction
- SMART
- Stacy and Witbeck
- Trees Inc.
- Utility Tree Service
- Vanguard Construction
Utility Clients
- FirstWind
- Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District
- Liberty Utilities
- NV Energy
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E)
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)
- SunEdison
Our Resources
MFE’s primary business has been serving utility companies’ since 2000, with highly skilled professionals, top of the line equipment, and a work ethic unprecedented in the Utility ROW Clearing and Maintenance contracting industry.
Personnel
MFE’s success over the years is in part due to our dedicated and loyal staff and the diversity of services we offer. Our clients will agree safe and efficient service along with expansive knowledge and professionalism is MFE’s culture. Our staff of professionals includes:
- Project Managers
- Estimators
- Safety Director
- Field Safety Specialist
- ISA Certified Arborist
- ISA Certified Utility Arborist
- Registered Professional Foresters
- Biologist/ QSP
- Support Staff
- General Foreman
- Hazard Tree Crews
- Aerial Lift Crews
- Climber Trimmer Crews
- Groundman/Sawyers
- Equipment Operators
- Mechanics
Equipment Fleet
MFE maintains the industry’s most complete fleet of tree service and land clearing equipment – it is the competitive edge we bring to every project. A comprehensive collection of specially designed track-driven and heavy-duty equipment enables MFE to provide every client with premier service.