We Offer Comprehensive Forestry Services
Serving Industrial and Private Forestland Owners
Urstadt Land and Timber serves both industrial forest managers and private landowners. The scope of our involvement varies considerably between them, shaped by each client’s management goals and operational capacity.
For industrial operators, we provide technical and field support that integrates into existing programs: inventory, timber harvest layout, silvicultural treatments, operational planning, and written plans. Drawing on our associate network of experienced forestry professionals, we can scale to handle larger projects and deliver comprehensive data management and harvest preparation on schedule.
For private landowners, our role usually extends beyond technical execution into advising, contract formation, and representing your interests through the full course of a project. The services below are defined so you can see specifically where we can help.
Forest Practice Compliance
The Forest Practices Acts in Oregon and Washington establish standards for commercial activities involving the establishment, management, or harvesting of trees on non-federal forestland. Enforced by the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Washington Department of Natural Resources, these regulations protect soils, watersheds, and wildlife habitat while providing for sustained timber yield.
Both states require landowners to follow permitting and operational guidelines, which often means written plans and map production. We assist landowners in meeting those requirements.
Forest and Timber Management Plans
A management plan sets the strategy for your property: how to develop the timber, habitat, and other resources you care about on a timeline that fits your goals. We write plans to suit the landowner’s needs, from a straightforward development strategy to a more extensive document built to meet a specific program’s requirements.
In both Oregon and Washington, a management plan may be required to qualify forestland for tax deferral, depending on the program and the county, and it strengthens an application either way. Cost sharing programs, though competitive, are often designed to promote high-quality forestland and resource protection, and can offset the cost of stewardship work. We help landowners identify the right programs and prepare plans that meet their standards.
Timber Cruising and Appraisal
Timber cruising and appraisal inform many forest management decisions, and we bring extensive experience to this work across the Pacific Northwest, Idaho, Northern California, and Southeast Alaska.
Not every landowner needs the same kind of timber analysis. We adapt to your situation and offer a range of ways to understand the standing value of your timber, whether that’s a walk-through and discussion, a timber cruise, a brief report, or a full appraisal of value. We have many options for communicating what your timber is worth, matched to what you actually need.
Timber Harvest Design & Logging
There’s more than one way to sell timber. A lump-sum sale transfers the standing timber to a buyer for a fixed price, while a per-unit or contracted harvest is paid out as logs are cut and delivered. Each carries a different balance of risk, timing, and return, and the right choice depends on your property, your goals, and the market.
We manage the harvest from design through completion, handling layout, contracts, regulatory compliance, and log accounting on the landowner’s behalf. We evaluate the options with you and manage the sale from there, so whichever route you take, you’re operating with professional expertise.
Reforestation & Silviculture
Silviculture is the active management of forests toward a specific outcome, including reforestation, vegetation control, prescribed burning, and management of stem density and stand structure. We have extensive experience managing forest conditions across state and private ownerships.
Our work combines field insight with financial analysis to evaluate treatment options and forecast stand development. Reviewing the results of past treatments, ours and our peers’, keeps our recommendations grounded in observed outcomes rather than assumption.
Written Plans & Permitting
Written plans serve two purposes in forestry: demonstrating compliance during operational notifications, and supporting decisions around investment and project planning.
We prepare plans grounded in field experience and supported by current mapping and analysis tools, which lets us address technical constraints directly rather than working around them.
GIS & Mapping Services
We use professional GIS software to produce maps for forest management and land assessment, providing precise visualization of property boundaries, terrain, and forest resources.
Accurate mapping supports planning, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance. Landowners regularly tell us the maps are useful well beyond the project itself, for navigating and understanding their own ground.
Expert Witness & Conflict Resolution
We provide objective analysis and professional testimony in forestry disputes, including timber deed and contract disagreements, harvest trespass cases, and stream classification errors.
Our role is to establish the facts clearly so landowners and legal counsel can reach a fair, informed resolution.
