Homestead is a family-owned and operated logging and milling business specializing in forest management specific to the needs of small parcel property owners.

In addition to expert timber felling and general land management, one of Theo specialties is in the milling and utilization of our local timber species. Theo has a vast knowledge of dimensions and applications that best suit each species with consideration of both dollar value and common utilization.

During his 30 years as both a timber feller and mobile sawyer, Theo has maintained a parallel and sometimes interwoven career firefighting that has spanned working on engine crews, 2 years on a Hotshot crew as a sawyer, a 10 year volunteer stint with NSJ Fire, and currently, contract felling on fire lines for both Calfire and the Forest Service. This unique combination of expertise has developed in him an unmatched understanding of forest health and best practices as they relate to land and homes. With years of experience working inside devastated fire zones, around both burned and standing homes and forests, Theo is the best person to help home-owners formulate a fire resilience plan and implement it. 

• 30 Years Of Timber Experience

• Licensed Timber Operator

• Fully Insured

ABOUT US:

Born and raised in California’s Sierra Foothills, Theo is the son of renowned environmental and political activist, Michael Killigrew. Michael was known for bridging the gap between environmentalists, and the people on the ground, making a living in our forests. He grew up surrounded by naturalists, who appreciated nature, but weren’t afraid to pick up a saw or light a winter field on fire to bring down summer fire danger. By this example, Theo brings a level of stewardship and ethics to his work that is rare. He cut his first tree down at 15, a dead Ponderosa Pine, with his first saw- a Husqevarna 257.

Soon thereafter he joined the local volunteer Fire Department, where he met a retired PG&E employee by the name of Ed Yilek- then the owner of a Woodmizer LT40. Ed trained and employed him at 18 as a sawyer and together they ran the Woodmizer as a business. At 21, Theo joined the Hobart Hotshots, where he was employed as a sawyer, cutting fire line with a Husqevarna 262. Since then Theo has worked for numerous logging outfits and in 2005 he and his brother purchased their own sawmill.

He brings over 30 years experience to his work, as well as a deep consideration for the health and beauty of the land. When not cutting and or running the Woodmizer LT40, you can find him writing songs and playing his guitar, or wandering off-trail in a forest somewhere.