What a Consulting Forester Can Do for You

If you own forestland in Oregon or Washington, you’re already a forest manager. Every decision about your land, when to harvest, whether to thin, how to replant, what resources to protect, is a management decision.

You have options in how you handle that work, including hiring service providers to help with tasks like planning, logging, planting, vegetation control, or estate work. Each of those providers does one task. But managing forestland means weighing all of it at once, timber value and market timing, forest health, regulations and taxes, contracts and labor rates, and the long-term future of the land. Only one professional is trained to manage that whole picture the way you have to: a consulting forester.

A consulting forester is hired to help you manage your forestland with a professional’s experience behind every decision, balancing the same goals you care about, whether that’s timber value, forest health, or the long-term future of the property. Our role is to represent your interests and no one else’s, putting our experience, tools, and professional network to work so you reach the outcomes you’re after.

In a timber harvest, working with us puts a landowner in a position of knowledge and strength, negotiating from a solid understanding of what the timber is worth, with contract protections in place and access to a vetted network of log buyers and logging contractors. Our Timber Sales page shows how it works, and why independent studies consistently find that landowners net more from a timber sale with a consulting forester than without one, even after accounting for the fee.