Selling Timber in Custer County, CO
Quick answer
There is 1 timber business listed for Custer County, Colorado: 1 consulting forester. 1 of them has an office 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 Custer County
No county publishes its own timber prices. These are Colorado's published stumpage prices, what landowners are paid for standing timber, and the best public guide to what timber in Custer County is bringing. Your own timber can sell above or below them. No agency publishes a Colorado price series. These are the appraised minimum stumpage rates from two actual 2025 national forest sales in Colorado.
| Engelmann spruce, lodgepole and mixed conifer sawtimber | $5–$8.2 per hundred cubic feet |
Source: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region, 2025. All Colorado timber prices
Before you talk to anyone, find out what your timber is worth
Most landowners in Custer County have no idea what their standing timber is worth, which is exactly the position a buyer wants you in. Four questions gets you a ballpark range before the first offer lands.
Consulting Foresters in Custer County (1)
This forester has an office right here in Custer County. A forester works for you, not for the buyer.
Greenleaf Forestry and Wood Products Inc runs a sawmill in Westcliffe, Colorado, and does forestry consulting and timber buying as well. "Wood products, tree service, and forest management are what we specialize in," is how they put it, and the work covers thinning and removal of overgrowth, fire mitigation and defensible space, insect and disease control for Ips and mountain pine beetles and mistletoe, nursery trees and tree transplanting, forest management plans and Community Wildfire Protection Plans, firewood cutting programs, cutting view corridors, brush and slash clean up, road and trail maintenance, and fencing. They work with ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir, bristlecone pine, white fir, and blue spruce. A job starts with their forest inspection service, which they call the best way to begin active forestry on a property. They say they pay for removed wood at market value or offer credits to help offset the cost of the work, and that ongoing work comes with return visits year after year, an annual review of the plan, and discounts on products at their Westcliffe sawmill. They serve Custer County and have been creating wood products and managing forested properties since 2003. This fits a landowner who wants one outfit to walk the property, handle the fire risk around the house, and take the timber and firewood off at the same time, rather than hiring separate people for each piece. From greenleafforestry.com, read 10 October 2026.
Questions landowners ask
How many timber buyers and foresters serve Custer County?
1 business is listed for Custer County: 1 consulting forester and 0 buyers, loggers and mills. 1 of them has an office in the county.
How much is my timber worth in Custer 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 Custer 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? →What is timber worth in Custer County?
No price series is published for Custer County on its own. Colorado's latest published stumpage figures (USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region, 2025) put engelmann spruce, lodgepole and mixed conifer sawtimber at $5–$8.2 per hundred cubic feet. 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 Custer County come from the county register, revised 2026-11-04. The register is updated quarterly.