our featured solution

wildfire
woodchips
In 4 years, local fungi turn slash and other wood into high organic matter soils

We dovetail into existing efforts and minimize carbon footprint!

These start working immediately, since rotting wood holds 4-7X more water than woodchips and barren soil, this increased water content makes your property less likely to burn than otherwise

a wildfire resilient 
landscape
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Greener solution, minimal carbon footprint vs. alternatives

Rotting wood holds 4-7X its weight in water, a wet landscape doesn’t burn like a dry one!

Fuels reduced, converted into forest soil in ~4 years

Fungal Solutions is part consultancy, part start-up, and fully focused on leveraging fungi to solve large environmental problems.

Our founder, Dr. Lauren Czaplicki, holds a Doctorate, a Master’s, and a Bachelor’s focused on environmental engineering.

With Duke University’s Superfund Research Program, she coaxed native soil fungi to clean up legacy pollution from Superfund sites and noticed that when we restore fungal functioning, other things start working well too.

Wildfire prevention is tangled up with drought and waste management and water security.

Since moving to Durango, she’s added restoring the local water cycle to her list of problems to solve because some of the cobenefits of fungal restoration include fixing the water cycle, sequestering carbon, and boosting soil health….that and it’s hard to clean up legacy pollution when your town is burned down.

On this fire mitigation solution, we leverage a partnership with Jeff Ravage and his decades of experience as a wildlands fire fighter and applied mycological researcher (CUSP, CO CO, and Denver Botanic Gardens researcher).

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