Our Services:

ADMINISTRATION

CONSULTING

LAND MANAGEMENT
Our clients' need and goals are diverse; we generally work with our clients to achieve one or more of these important objectives:
  • Generating ongoing income to offset property ownership costs
  • Enhancing the future value of standing timber with selection cutting
  • Determining timber value for the purchase or sale of property
  • Pre-commercial timber stand improvement - thinning, pruning, brush control
  • Improving landowners' condition, value and aesthetics
  • Natural Resource Conservation, including forest management for wildlife
  • Managing land for future commercial income - e.g. Christmas trees, landscape stock
Selling Timber?
How do you get the most income?

Recent analysis of stumpage reports to the Maine Forest Service which showed that having a forester's assistance in selling timber resulted in higher income. A new study done in North Carolina reports that hiring a consulting forester results in 30% more income per acre of timber sold. The authors report that landowners realize considerably more total income when they hire private consulting foresters, even after the forester's fees are paid.

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TIMBER SALE ADMINISTRATION

Our primary objectives are 1) maximizing short and long-term income for our clients, and 2) relieving our clients from the often complex tasks associaed with a timber sale.

The key to meeting client objectives involves locating, contracting for, and overseeing a competent, responsible logger. We contract only with very high quality loggers with proven track records. We negotiate to optimize income and regularly monitor performance to help assure high quality work.

Finally, we handle all aspects of record-keeping, repporting, administration and delivery of proceeds on a timely basis.

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FORESTRY CONSULTING

Effective woodlot management often requires development of a comprehensive plan. After an initial consultation, we conduct a thorough inspection of the property, document our findings and recommendations and present them to the client. Specific courses of action are then agreed upon.

Timber appraisal is one of our most widely used services. Appraisal objectives include the determination of timber value for 1) purchase or sale property, 2) establishing depletion accounts to offset timber income taxes in future sales, 3) timber trespass incidents.

Other consulting services include timber investment counseling, expert opinions regarding timber trespass and property classification under Maine's Tree Growth Law.

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LAND MANAGEMENT SERVICES

We assist our clients in upgrading the quality, appearance, productivity and hence, the value of their landholdings, by providing the following land management services:

Timber Stand Improvement- This normally includes activities required to manage young stands before timber can be cut profitably- e.g. weeding, pruning, thinning, brush control.

Pre-Timber Sale Lot Preparation, which includes tree selection and marking, road and trail layout- important keys to leaving a good residual stand.

Plantation Management- Christmas trees, landscape stock; includes planting, herbicide application for disease and insect control, pruning, brush control and marketing.

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