McKinley & Lanier Forest Resources, Inc.
About McKinley & Lanier Forest Resources, Inc.
McKinley & Lanier Forest Resources, Inc. is a forestry consulting firm in Northport, Alabama. It has served landowners since 1975, and its staff are Registered Foresters who belong to the Association of Consulting Foresters of America. The firm works across central Alabama and eastern Mississippi and names Tuscaloosa County among the counties it serves. Its work includes timber sales, timber appraisals and timber cruises, forest management planning, reforestation, thinning and other forest maintenance, prescribed burning, boundary line maintenance, and wildlife habitat work. The species it names is pine plantation. The minimum acreage it states is 100 acres. A sale runs in steps. The firm marks the sale boundaries and collects GPS data, sets streamside management zones, and completes a timber cruise to set fair market value. It then sends a prospectus to more than 40 timber buyers, manages the bid opening, and prepares the contract. During harvest it inspects operations weekly, makes sure roads are repaired and BMPs are followed, closes out the sale, and can coordinate replanting. It suits pine plantation owners in central Alabama or eastern Mississippi who want a bid-based sale handled from marking through close-out, with replanting afterward if they want it. From mlforestresources.com, read 17 October 2026.
Can they handle a timber sale?
Selling standing timber properly takes three things. Here's what the state register credits this firm with.
Timber AppraisalAn estimate of what your standing timber is worth in dollars, based on how much there is, its quality, and current prices. When you are selling, settling an estate, dividing property, or need a value for taxes or insurance.What does this mean? → — not listed
works out what your standing timber is worth
Timber Cruise & Volume EstimateA field measurement of your standing trees — their species, sizes, and quality — that adds up to how much wood you actually have. Before you sell, so you go in knowing roughly what is out there rather than taking a buyer's word for it.What does this mean? → — not listed
measures and grades what's actually out there
Timber Sale & Contract AdministrationRunning the sale for you: advertising the timber, taking bids, writing the contract, and overseeing the logging so the agreed terms are met. When you want someone on your side handling the whole sale rather than dealing with buyers and loggers yourself.What does this mean? → — not listed
runs the sale and handles the contract
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