Selling Timber in St. Clair County, AL
Quick answer
There are 7 timber businesses listed for St. Clair County, Alabama: 2 consulting foresters and 5 timber buyers, loggers and mills. 6 of them have offices in the county. The rest are registered to work here and travel in, and every listing shows how far its office is from the county seat.
Timber prices for St. Clair County
No county publishes its own timber prices. These are Alabama's published stumpage prices, what landowners are paid for standing timber, and the best public guide to what timber in St. Clair County is bringing. Your own timber can sell above or below them. Alabama publishes no free, maintained timber price series of its own, and Timber Mart-South's Alabama report is paid, so there is no Alabama-only figure to quote. The range above is not an Alabama number: it is the range a regional report gave for Tennessee, South Carolina and Alabama together in Q4 2025, and only for pine sawtimber. Treat it as a rough regional marker, not as your county's price.
| Pine sawtimber | $17–$21 per ton |
Source: Southern Ag Today (from Timber Mart-South), Q4 2025. All Alabama timber prices
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Before you take the first offer
A timber buyer's job is to buy your timber as cheaply as they can. A consulting forester works for you — they measure what's standing, tell you what it's worth, and run a competitive sale, usually for a percentage of the price. That makes their interests line up with yours. 2 of the 2 foresters covering St. Clair County offer the full set — appraisal, cruise, and running the sale itself. How to decide whether you need one
Consulting Foresters in St. Clair County (2)
These 2 foresters have offices right here in St. Clair County. A forester works for you, not for the buyer.
Forever Green, Inc. appears on the Alabama Forestry Commission's service provider directory, based in Moody, in St. Clair County. The Commission compiles that directory from providers who submit their own information to it; a listing is not an endorsement. The directory lists it under Consulting Forester, Timber Appraisal and Timber Sales.
Southeastern Forest Products is a forestry business in Ashville, Alabama, listed as a forestry consultant. It works in St. Clair County. The services it lists are consulting forester work, timber appraisal, timber sales, and timber stand improvement. A consulting forester advises a landowner on the land and the trees, and can help plan what comes next. Timber appraisal puts a value on standing timber before any sale. Timber sales covers selling your trees to a buyer. Timber stand improvement is work done inside a stand of trees to help the better ones do well. For a landowner with timber in St. Clair County, this business covers the advice, the valuation, and the sale in one place. It suits an owner who wants a forester to look at the woods before deciding whether, when, and how to sell. From kellrealty.com, read 17 October 2026.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills in St. Clair County (4)
These 4 are based in St. Clair County. Being close matters: hauling is one of the biggest costs taken out of your check.
Cambron Logging is a logging contractor in Ragland, Alabama. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
HudSon Sawmills of Pell City is a mill in Pell City, Alabama. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
It Grows On Trees Woodworks, LLC is a sawmill and dry kiln operation in Pell City, Alabama. Ken McLaughlin is the owner and operator, and the family business describes itself as centered around the Golden Rule. The sawmill started in May 2019. Its listed county is St. Clair. If you have logs on your land, It Grows On Trees Woodworks can pick them up at your site, saw them, and bring back the lumber on a 14 foot dump trailer or a 23 foot gooseneck trailer. They will also cut up and remove logs from other people's property and pile the brush, for a nominal fee or for the logs. As they put it, "We do not fell trees." They also do light excavation and underbrush clearing with a Kubota B26 backhoe. The mill can saw logs up to 27 inches wide and 20 feet long. The species they name are oak, pine, and poplar. Their Nyle L200 dehumidification kiln dries up to 2,000 board feet of oak or 1,500 board feet of pine or poplar, which they say suits cabinet shops and furniture builders. Pricing depends on species, style of sawing, board size, and whether the lumber is sold green or kiln dried. This business suits a landowner with oak, pine, or poplar logs who wants them sawn and possibly dried for building or woodworking, and who would rather have the logs hauled and the lumber returned than do the work themselves. From itgrowsontreeswoodworks.com, read 17 October 2026.
JMW LOGGING LLC is a logging contractor in Odenville, Alabama. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills Nearby (1)
Businesses that buy, cut or mill timber in St. Clair County, working from a nearby town.
Covered Bridge Timber Inc is a timber buyer and logging business based in Ashville, Alabama, with a mailing address in Cropwell. It buys and sells timber, does logging and logging services, and also offers forest management, selective marketing and land use changes. It works with private landowners throughout Alabama, and the county named as its service area is St. Clair. The business has been in the timber trade since 2001. It is a registered and fully insured Alabama company, and it describes its work as "Geared almost entirely toward working for the private landowner." It also points to attention given to detail, to the quality and cleanliness of the work, and to an educational background in forestry that it says gives it the know-how for every part of the job. It suits a landowner who wants one firm to both buy the standing timber and handle the logging, whether the sale is to meet money needs or the land needs work before any cutting. From coveredbridgetimberinc.com, read 17 October 2026.
Questions landowners ask
How many timber buyers and foresters serve St. Clair County?
7 businesses are listed for St. Clair County: 2 consulting foresters and 5 buyers, loggers and mills. 6 of them have offices in the county.
How much is my timber worth in St. Clair County?
Nobody can tell you what your timber is worth without walking it. Value depends on the species, the size and grade of the trees, how thickly they stand, the ground conditions and how easily a logger can reach them. Anyone who quotes you a figure without seeing the land is guessing, and a guess in that direction is rarely in your favour.
What stumpage value means →Do I need a forestry consultant to sell timber in St. Clair County?
You do not have to use one. A consulting forester works for you rather than the buyer, marks the timber, runs a sealed-bid sale and typically charges a percentage of the sale. Research from several state extension services has found that timber sold through a consultant often returns enough more to cover the fee, though results vary by tract and by market. The decision usually turns on the size of the sale and whether you have sold timber before.
Do I need a forestry consultant? →Do I need a permit to cut timber in Alabama?
Alabama requires no state permit to harvest timber on your own land, but it does require a NOTICE, and the notice is state law rather than a county's own idea. Before timber is hauled out over county roads, the timber owner tells the county commission's regular office: four business days ahead where the harvest needs a new access point onto the road, two where it uses one that already exists. In exchange the statute closes the door on anything further — a county may not demand a second notice, a permit or licence, or a bond or other security as the price of using its roads. Separately, Alabama's forestry Best Management Practices are not a permit programme, but they are not merely advisory either: the Department of Environmental Management inspects forestry operations and will require BMPs where voluntary use falls short, because the water-quality law behind them is enforceable.
Permit rules in Alabama →What is timber worth in St. Clair County?
No price series is published for St. Clair County on its own. Alabama's latest published stumpage figures (Southern Ag Today (from Timber Mart-South), Q4 2025) put pine sawtimber at $17–$21 per ton. What your own timber brings depends on the species, the size and amount of it, and how far it is from a mill. A timber cruise by a forester settles it.
Forester listings for St. Clair County come from the Alabama Forestry Commission service provider directory, revised 21-Sep-26. The register is updated quarterly.