Timber Buyers

Sierra Pacific Industries - Chinese Camp is a mill in Chinese Camp, California. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a timber buyer and a logging contractor. A listing here is not an endorsement.

A&F Enterprises Logging & Excavating is a logging and excavating outfit based in Cedar Ridge, California, founded in 1992 in Grass Valley. It's family-owned and has been doing this work for over 30 years. The work covers more than just logging: land clearing, lot clearing, site preparation, tree removal, logging services, trenching, compaction, masticating, road construction, and tree buying. It also handles fire safety and vegetation management work, including defensible space and wildfire prep, and it names forest service and forest management among what it offers. It's licensed for both logging and excavating, bonded, and insured, and it's contracted with the US Forest Service and CalFire. It belongs to the Nevada County Contractors' Association and Associated California Loggers. It's named as serving Placer County, with areas named including Nevada County, Grass Valley, and Northern California more broadly. No tree species are named, and there's no detailed walk-through of how a timber sale runs here, so a landowner would want to ask directly about that. In its own words, the work is meant to help landowners "protect and enhance their property," and the aim is "honest, high-quality work." This one suits a landowner whose land needs more than just timber cut, someone also thinking about fire safety, clearing, or site work alongside the trees, rather than a straightforward stumpage sale. From aandfenterprises.com, read 4 October 2026.

Apex Lumber is a mill in Oroville, California. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a timber buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Salvage Sawmill is a mill and timber buyer based in Nevada City, California. They take storm damaged, dead, or otherwise "in the way" trees and turn them into usable lumber, working with Cedar, Redwood, and all hardwoods. If you've got logs on the ground, they'll do log recovery, and if the logs are millable they'll remove them for free. To qualify, logs need to be relatively straight, free of decay, at least 16 inches in diameter, and 8 to 20 feet long, though they may take shorter pieces of unusual or burl wood. From there they offer portable mobile milling right at your site, using a mill that can handle logs up to 36 inches across and 21 feet long. If your job is smaller, you can also haul logs to their Penn Valley yard for on-site milling at a lower rate. Every job starts with a free on-site consultation to plan things out before they arrive. They also keep lumber in stock or will cut to order, and through a sister operation they build custom furniture from the wood they mill. They serve Nevada County, naming Grass Valley, Nevada City, Penn Valley, and Auburn along with the surrounding Northern California area as their working ground. This fits a landowner with a downed or dying tree, maybe storm damage or fire-thinning work, who wants to see that wood turned into something useful rather than hauled off or burned, especially if the logs are large enough to be worth milling. From salvagesawmill.com, read 4 October 2026.

Redwood Empire Sawmill is a mill in Cloverdale, California. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a timber buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Big Creek Lumber Company is a mill in Vallejo, California. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a consulting forester, a timber buyer and a logging contractor. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Santa Cruz Sawmill is a one-man sawmill and timber buying business run out of Boulder Creek, California. David Smith started it in 1994 to saw redwood logs on site into lumber of all sizes, and he still runs it that way today. The sawmill is portable, so instead of trucking your logs off somewhere, he brings the mill to your land and cuts there. He works in redwood, fir, and hardwoods. Services include on-site lumber manufacturing, log purchase and removal, full-dimension lumber, resurfacing recovered wood, and straightening bowed or twisted wood. He also handles tree work tied to a job: subcontracting, log removal, cleanup, and permits. He says having a mill that can cut on-site "saves time and money," which is the whole idea behind how he works. His service area covers the Santa Cruz area, including Bonny Doon, Watsonville, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, and La Selva. This fits a landowner in that part of California who has redwood, fir, or hardwood logs down or standing, and who likes the idea of having the logs milled where they lie rather than hauled off to a yard, dealing with one person who's been doing this work since 1994. From santacruzsawmill.com, read 4 October 2026.

Welker's Custom Cut Lumber is a sawmill in Fresno, California. They mill logs into custom cut lumber to the buyer's specifications, and they also buy timber. If you've got logs, they'll turn them into rough cut boards for framing, siding, corral boards, fencing, bar tops, and mantle pieces. Their main species are white fir, ponderosa pine, sugar pine, and incense cedar, all native to the central Sierra Nevada. They'll also take red fir, lodgepole pine, and Jeffrey pine, and occasionally douglas fir, coast redwood, and giant sequoia. A lot of what they mill comes from trees killed by wildfire and drought, work they describe as "giving new life to devastated trees." Their Woodmizer sawmills can handle logs up to 54 inches across and 32 feet long, so big logs aren't a problem. They serve Fresno County. There's no stated minimum acreage or tract size for timber sales. If you have logs from your land, whether a handful or a large harvest, it sounds like they'll look at them. This one fits a landowner in the Fresno County area who has dead or storm damaged trees and wants them turned into usable lumber rather than left to rot, or who wants their own logs custom milled to specific sizes. From welkerscustomlumber.com, read 4 October 2026.

Humboldt Redwood Company Lumber Mill is a mill in Scotia, California. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a timber buyer and a consulting forester. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Green Diamond Resource Co - California Timberlands Division is a timber buyer in Arcata, California. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a logging contractor and a consulting forester. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.

The Firewood Guy - Kern River Valley Firewood is a timber buyer in Bodfish, California. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Kubich Lumber Co is a sawmill in Grass Valley, California, in Nevada County. They mill wood products and also buy timber, working right from their own mill. They've been at this a long time, "providing high quality wood products for nearly 70 years." They say they aim to "create both a product and reputation that will survive the test of time." The site doesn't lay out which species they handle or walk through how a timber sale works with them, so you'd want to call and ask directly. Their listed service area is Nevada County. There's no stated minimum acreage, and no smallest job size to go by either, so it's worth a call to find out if your parcel is the kind of size they take on. This one suits a landowner in Nevada County who wants to deal with a long-running local mill directly, and who doesn't mind picking up the phone to get the specifics on species and process before moving forward. From kubichlumber.com, read 4 October 2026.

J&C Enterprises is a logging contractor in Crescent Mills, California. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a timber buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

GTS Forestry, Inc is a timber buyer in Sacramento, California. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.

W. M. Beaty & Associates Inc is a consulting forester in Redding, California. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a timber buyer. A consulting forester works for the landowner, not the buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Two Rivers Timber LLC is a timber buyer in Trinity County, California. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.