Summit Forestry Services
This firm's office is in Grass Valley, PA, outside California. It appears here because the California forestry register lists it as working 1 California counties. Worth asking how far they'll travel for a tract your size.
About Summit Forestry Services
Summit Forestry Services is a forestry consulting business based in Grass Valley, California, for landowners with timber who need help deciding what to do with it. It's been operating since January 1997. The work covers the permits needed to harvest: Timber Harvest Plans, emergencies, exemptions, and 3 acre conversions. They also do timber marking, timber sale preparation, logging administration, timber inventories, appraisals and valuations, log merchandising, marketing and accounting, and independent third party consultations. On the land itself they handle reforestation work such as site preparation, tree planting and timber stand improvement, plus wildfire rehabilitation. They write both Timber Management Plans and Non-Industrial Timber Management Plans (NTMP). They describe their process as working with the client to meet the objectives for the property. They can run a "turn-key" project from start to finish, or just give the landowner specific advice to save money, or do something in between. The company serves Nevada County and says it works with both local clients and "out of the region" clients. Peter Walden is a Registered Professional Forester (RPF) #2001 and a California Agricultural Pest Control Advisor (PCA) #07770. This fits a landowner who wants one outfit to carry a harvest through the permitting, the marking, the sale and the cleanup afterward, rather than just a one-time opinion on what the trees are worth. From summitforestryservices.com, read 4 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
This firm isn't credited with all three, which doesn't make it a worse forester — plenty specialise in management planning, wildlife or wetlands. It does mean that if your goal is to sell timber, you'd likely need someone else for the part that's missing.
Everything they're registered for
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Summit Forestry Services
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