Backwoods Forestry & Excavation

About Backwoods Forestry & Excavation

Sagle's driveways wind back through timber before most of them ever reach a lake view, cedar and fir holding a heavier, wetter snow than the open country farther south, and Backwoods Forestry & Excavation clears both the ground and the trees that lean into it. Summers here are spent cutting building pads and clearing land back from Lake Pend Oreille's shoreline; winters turn the same crew toward plowing the long wooded lanes that connect those lots to the road, working under a canopy that keeps the snow deep and shaded well past when it has melted elsewhere in the valley. Fog sits low over the lake on the coldest mornings, and a driveway cleared through these woods can feel like the only proof that a house is out there at all. It's careful work suited to close, wooded ground, done one long lane at a time.