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Timber Appraisals and Sales

Services listed on this page are:

Timber appraisals

Wildlife habitat improvement

Timber sales;

For forest management services not described here, please contact me.
 

Assistance Available

Anywhere*

*Timber sale assistance available anywhere not prohibited by law. For professional qualifications, click here.

For two Michigan timber sale project examples, click here.

Timber is one of the most financially and economically valuable natural resources on the planet. As a real estate asset, standing timber is often the most valuable portion of rural uninhabited properties.  Appraisals are the best protection a landowner can obtain to ensure a fair trade is made with the logger. The whole value of the trade doesn’t stop at just an appraisal though, A landowner must remember that the future value results in retained trees. All timber sales are not created equally. 

Geoff Kegerreis, nearly 6’ tall is dwarfed while standing aside a 46” DBH Bur Oak in Defiance County, Ohio during the field operations of a timber appraisal.  The timber volume was estimated using extrapolation since the volume figures in ths USFS Eastern Region foresters handbook stop at 42” DBH. Timberline Forestry has prepared and sold timber in Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. References and even letters of recommendation are available upon request.

Take advantage of my experience to help you properly manage your timber sale.  I will gladly assist you with all or part of the sale of your timber so you can conserve your forest resources, ensuring that your current timber sale revenue is appropriate, and that the right amount and type of trees are harvested and/or retained so that your future timber will be in high demand.  The fee of this service is usually financially beneficial for you due to the optimization of timber assets and considerations that protect your legal interests.  My clients own the finest forest lands in Michigan. Why not add yourself to that list!

Is wildlife habitat improvement on your list of goals for your land?  Timberline Forestry has toured and helped map the Mid-Forest Lodge.  At approximately 19,000 acres of contiguous land, the Mid-Forest lodge is one of the largest and most successful hunt clubs in Michigan!

Thousands of acres of satisfied clients who have witnessed improved White-tailed deer populations on their property are experiencing the advantage of Timberline Forestry’s proven landscape-based vegetation management specifically targeted at bringing and keeping the deer on your land.  These techniques are proprietary and based on a variety of unique experience working directly with wildlife habitat biologists and deer habitat experts. No other consultant in Michigan can compare.

Timber Appraisals

This service is strongly recommended to anyone who owns forest land and is contemplating offering timber for sale, but does not know the value of the timber.
Standing timber is a valuable commodity and without a good estimate of the volume of timber offered for sale and the current market rate associated with that volume + specifics of the parcel, there is a good chance a landowner will lose far more than the cost of this service to a speculator offering “top dollar paid for standing timber”. In many cases, even tracts as small as 10 acres contain timber values above and beyond the price of what the land would sell for on the real estate market.  When Timberline Forestry appraises your standing timber, not only will you receive an appropriate appraisal figure, you will also receive objective information pertinent to the management of the tract so that your land is maintained appropriately.  For more information, click here.

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Timber Sales

Conducting a timber sale properly is a complex process.  Timberline Forestry will handle all of the following services for you:

-Survey records research and documentation -Timber sale boundary marking
-Area determination
-Individual tree marking
-Volume determination
-Timber valuation
-Timber sale map creation
-Prospectus creation
-Drafting of the timber harvesting contract
-Sealed bid marketing
-Marketing through negotiation
-Harvesting supervision oversight
 

Mistakes made during the timber sale process are often permanent.  In most cases in temperate forests, trees take at least 60 years to grow to merchantable size.  Making wise decisions is an important aspect of managing timber!  Timberline Forestry has the experience you need to ensure that the job goes smoothly. Timberline’s contracts have been examined and approved by an attorney known for his expertise in real estate law. Timberline’s timber harvesting contract specifications are based on both private and public sources and have been used successfully for decades.

A text example of my timber sale projects is available here.

Want to see some of the fine work Timberline Forestry has done in the two most valuable Michigan timber cover types there is?

Check out my Red pine forestry management video, here.
View my Northern hardwoods (Beech, Maple, Ash, Cherry, Red oak) here.

Timberline Forestry can assist you in any part of the timber sale process from start to finish.  To enlist quality assistance, click here