Heritage Tree Arboricultural Consulting
About Heritage Tree Arboricultural Consulting
Heritage Tree Arboricultural Consulting Inc. is a consulting arborist firm at 1343 Bishop Street in San Luis Obispo, California. Rodney Thurman is the owner and principal consultant. The firm started in 2018 and offers "expert consulting arborist services" throughout San Luis Obispo, Southern Monterey and Northern Santa Barbara counties. Named areas include Atascadero, Paso Robles, the Five Cities Region and Santa Maria. The work is advice on trees, permits and plans rather than buying or cutting timber. Services include tree risk assessments, tree and plant health evaluations, tree protection plans for construction, tree removal permit applications, and pest and disease management. For owners of a large tract of oak woodland or a property with many landscape trees, the firm prepares a tree inventory and management plan. It covers tree health, the work needed and a timetable for doing it. Fire protection and defensible space assessments and soils analysis are also offered. Rodney Thurman holds the ISA Board Certified Master Arborist credential, along with a Tree Risk Assessment Qualification, Certified Urban Forest Professional & Utility Specialist and ISA Certified Arborist certifications. The firm describes its work as "unbiased, science-based, tree consultations" for customers across San Luis Obispo County and the Central Coast. This firm suits a landowner who needs a written management plan for an oak woodland, a tree risk check or help with a removal permit on a property in these counties. A landowner who wants to sell standing timber or have logs hauled will need a different kind of firm. From heritagetreeconsulting.com, read 10 November 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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Heritage Tree Arboricultural Consulting
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