Busy Bees Dirty WorkTransforming hazardous landscapes into fire-resilient properties.

Home ignition zones

Aerial view of a guarded Montana home — front entry and driveway in the foreground, large back deck on the far side of the house facing the valley and mountain ranges

Excavator bucket beside an uprooted stump on cleared ground at Sapphire Ridge, pine forest left standing behind it

Wildland Management / Wildfire Mitigation / Fire Abatement

Drawing on the discipline and experience gained from our founder's years as a United States Marine and a Federal Firefighter, we deliver a tactical, informed approach to property protection. At Busy Bees Dirty Work, we make every job a team effort. Using heavy equipment and the necessary skill set, we will transform hazardous landscapes into fire-resilient properties, safeguarding homes and wilderness interfaces in Missoula and Lake Counties.

Property entrance at night — a heavy timber arch over a gravel driveway, lit against the dark sky, with split-rail fencing and the house beyond

Gravel Driveways & Grand Entrances

Installation of gravel driveways and grand entrances. Re-grading and fresh gravel for drives that have gone rough.

Post and split rail fence running along a gravel road beside green pasture, with a pond and timbered hills behind it

Ranch Style Fencing & Gates

Busy Bees Dirty Work offers barbed wire, jack leg, and post & pole fencing, as well as installation of both ranch and cattle gates. Fencing is run straight and tight, built to endure the variance of Montana weather.

Ranch grand entrance in daylight — a heavy timber arch on stone pillars over a metal ranch gate and gravel driveway, with cattle grazing on open rangeland and mountains behind it

Jack Leg fencing running across open pasture with mountains behind it

Post and split rail fence on a hillside — the most common style, which uses far less material, on 8-foot posts

Cattle guard installation — a cattle guard set into a gravel road at a property entrance, with open rangeland and hills behind it

Cattle guard installation — a cattle guard with a pink A-frame beside it and cattle grazing in the pasture behind

Salvage — an older log barn, the kind of older structure whose building materials are reclaimed, with sunlit mountains behind it

Thinning a property — a thinned hillside of spaced pines behind a red shed and open pasture, with the Busy Bees Jeep in the foreground

Strategic Property Management

Develop a comprehensive plan for the property, including sustainable vegetation management to maintain long-term resilience against wildfires and environmental risks. Carry out the ground work in that plan — erosion control and habitat enhancement — so the property holds up over time.

George Lombardy in a cowboy hat and yellow gloves, seated in a red side-by-side UTV with cattle and mountains behind him

Wildland Management & Wildfire Mitigation defines the primary objective for Busy Bees Dirty Work when it comes to properties.

Busy Bees Dirty Work transforms hazardous landscapes into fire-resilient properties, safeguarding homes and wilderness interfaces in Missoula and Lake Counties. We work with the discipline of a United States Marine and a Federal Firefighter — a tactical, informed approach, heavy machines and the skill to operate them, every job a team effort.

The company grew out of developing our own land at Sapphire Ridge: clearing timber, cutting in a gravel entrance, fencing, and doing the site work for a home build. That same hands-on, boots-on-the-ground approach is what Busy Bees Dirty Work brings to every property it works.

A site visit includes a risk assessment at no charge — we show the hazards and give the solutions.

During the site visit, a plan of services is drawn up and agreed with the owner.

Established roots

Roots running generations deep

Busy Bees Dirty Work is a Veteran Owned & Operated, 100% American company.

George Lombardy was born in 1929 in Anaconda, Montana, and was in the graduating class of 1949 at Arlee High School. He was a Veteran who served in the Army Air Corps. His picture is still on the wall of Arlee High School. Phyllis Lombardy was born in Augusta, Montana, and raised 5 children, Kelly Lombardy being their oldest grandchild.