Selling Timber in Montrose County, CO
Quick answer
There are 2 timber businesses listed for Montrose County, Colorado: 2 timber buyers, loggers and mills. None of them has an office in the county. That is normal and it is worth knowing: consulting foresters register with the state county by county, and many register for counties they would have to drive hours to reach.
Timber prices for Montrose 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 Montrose 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 Montrose 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.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills That Work Here (2)
Businesses that buy, cut or mill timber in Montrose County, working from a nearby town.
Custom Log Crafting is a logging contractor in Montrose, Colorado. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
JAMCo Woodworks is a family sawmill in Olathe, Colorado, out on the Western Slope. They take logs, yours or ones they've sourced themselves locally, and mill them into beams, boards and slabs that end up as porches, ceilings and tables. This isn't a timber buyer or a logging crew; it's a mill you'd turn to once logs are down and you want them cut to size. They work mostly in Doug fir, spruce and pine for timbers and framing lumber, with walnut, ash, elm and sycamore on hand for hardwood slabs and mantels. If you've got logs to mill, you drop them off or line up a hauler yourself; logs need to be at least 8 feet long. Everything goes through their own Wood-Mizer, cut in "true dimension" so a 2x6 measures a full 2 inches, and they dry it in their own kiln. A quote usually comes back in about a business day, and orders over $1,000 need a 50% deposit to start. They don't deliver, but they'll put you in touch with a hauler. They serve the West Slope: Montrose, Olathe, Delta, Grand Junction, Ridgway, Ouray, Telluride, Gunnison, Crested Butte, Lake City, Durango, Silverton and the North Fork. JAMCo started as a construction company in 2015 before growing into the sawmill it is today, and they're a member of the Urban Wood Network. As they put it, the whole operation is about "logs to living." This suits a landowner who already has logs on the ground, or plans to have trees cut themselves, and wants a local mill to turn that wood into usable lumber rather than someone to buy standing timber. From jamcowoodworks.com, read 10 October 2026.
Questions landowners ask
How many timber buyers and foresters serve Montrose County?
2 businesses are listed for Montrose County: 0 consulting foresters and 2 buyers, loggers and mills. None of them has an office in the county; they register to work here and travel in.
How much is my timber worth in Montrose 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 Montrose 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 Montrose County?
No price series is published for Montrose 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 Montrose County come from the county register, revised 2026-11-04. The register is updated quarterly.