Forestry Consultants

Aerial-RX is a veteran owned small business providing drone spraying and aerial application services in Florida. The company describes its work as drone application services for agriculture, forestry and water management. On the forestry and conservation side it lists seed dispersal for reforestation and afforestation, including in hard to reach or rough terrain, native plant seeding for habitat restoration, targeted insecticide spraying against pests such as bark beetles and caterpillars, fungicide application, herbicide application for invasive plant control, and aerial surveys and thermal imaging to monitor forest health, growth and biodiversity. Agricultural work covers crop spraying with pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers and fungicides, variable rate and spot application, and crop health assessment using multispectral NDVI cameras along with digital surface and elevation models. A third line of work is aquatic and pond management, from algae and aquatic weed control to larvicide treatment and bank erosion control. Ground based work is also offered, including invasive plant control, trail vegetation clearing and fertilizer application. The site names no founding year, no crew size, no service area beyond Florida and no minimum tract size. As described on aerialrx.com, read 22 September 2026.

American Forest Management, Inc. is listed with the Florida Forest Service as a forest management consultant, and its Marianna office is recorded there as serving 21 Florida counties. The company's own site describes a national practice: it says it has been helping landowners “manage, sell, buy, improve and enjoy millions of acres of land for almost 60 years,” working from offices throughout the Northeast, Southeast, Lake States, Pacific Northwest and Gulf regions of the United States, with its corporate office in Charlotte, North Carolina. Its published land management menu covers timber sales, forest inventory, reforestation and silviculture, wildlife services, environmental services, forest carbon, wood flow, land surveying and forest certification under FSC, SFI and ATFS guidelines, alongside farm management through AFM Ag Services and a client accounting department that includes CPAs on staff. AFM states that its foresters and land management professionals are ready to help you manage your property of 15 acres or more, and that its clients include private landowners, investment management organizations, trusts and conservation groups. The firm also runs a real estate division listing timberland, recreational, agricultural and conservation tracts. The pages read describe the firm nationally and do not single out the Marianna office; this is company-wide material, as described on americanforestmanagement.com, read 22 September 2026.

Attack One Fire Management Services Inc is based in Crawfordville, Florida, and has operated since 2000. It is a State of Florida service-disabled veteran owned small business. The company works on private land with prescribed burns, mechanical fuel reduction, brush and vegetation clearing, tree thinning and pruning, firebreak construction, and chipping and mulching of cleared material. It also does wildland urban interface work near homes, emergency fire suppression, firefighter training, and GIS mapping. In its own words, the aim is to reduce "fuel loads that feed wildfires." Jobs start with a request form. A fire management specialist then gets back to you within 24 to 48 hours with a custom quote. The team is made up of land management and fire professionals who help with consulting, planning, and carrying the project through to completion. Its credentials include state certification for prescribed burn management in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, a Florida Certified Burner credential, and a Florida Licensed Commercial Pesticide Applicator license. Its vice president is a certified forester and certified wildlife biologist, and the team also includes a senior ecologist. The business works across Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, and names 32 Florida counties as its service area, including Leon, Wakulla and Escambia. Its clients are private landowners, non-profits, and state and federal agencies. It takes on both large and small projects. This business suits a landowner who wants fuel reduction, thinning, or a prescribed burn plan carried out by people with forestry and wildlife credentials. From attack-one.com, read 18 October 2026.

Bird Dog Fire & Land Management, Inc. is a land management firm in Morriston, Florida. It calls itself "an all in one Land Management provider," and its main work is prescribed fire, fuels reduction and clearing. It has been offering fire suppression services since 2015. On the land side, the work runs from prescribed burning, firelines and mechanical thinning to land clearing, brush removal, slash reduction and pile burning. The company also does hunting lanes, food plots, path restoration, field and path mowing, invasive species control and storm debris cleaning. Its wildfire response covers initial attack and mop-up, and it maintains mitigation banks. Its credentials include Florida Certified burn manager status, 8(a) Certified and Florida Recognized Minority Business, and it is Better Business Bureau Accredited. Counties covered include Alachua, Marion, Putnam and Volusia, among many others across the state. Its traditional fire work has been done with engine crews running type six, five and four engines, plus UTVs. The contact listed is CEO Carlos Gutierrez. It suits a landowner who wants fire, clearing or habitat work done on their acreage. From birddogfire.com, read 18 October 2026.

A Gainesville consulting practice listed with the Florida Forest Service across nineteen counties, from Alachua and Columbia in its home country out to Brevard, Broward and Charlotte. The firm's own site trades as Columbia Timber Company and Land Stewardship and is brief about what it does: land management plans, work spanning development, ecology and forestry, help buying and selling farm and land, and what it calls environmentally sound advice. Its stated approach is responsible stewardship of the owner's land on the principles of sustainable forestry, with a plan tailored specifically to the property rather than a standard template. The site publishes no founding date, no crew size and no minimum tract size. The certifications on file, an SAF Certified Forester and a Florida Certified Burner, matter for the prescribed fire end of that work. Source: columbiatimber.com, read 2026-09-23.

Listed with the Florida Forest Service as a forest management consultant, with storm debris cleanup, forestry mulching and brush cutting recorded against the name on the state register and fifteen Florida counties given as the service area. The company's own website describes something narrower than that register category suggests: a family-run land services contractor rather than a consulting forestry practice. Its site states that Double A Land Maintenance & Services "provides dependable forestry mulching, tree trimming, land clearing, brush cutting, and storm debris cleanup in Wauchula and throughout Central Florida", and the company calls itself "a small, family-owned business" that takes pride in "honest work, careful operation, and treating every property with the respect it deserves". The team is described as licensed and insured, though no licence number, class or issuing body is named. On mulching, the site says the process grinds unwanted growth into a natural mulch layer that stays on site instead of being hauled away, which the company says can limit erosion, support moisture retention and leave a more manageable surface; land clearing it describes as a complete site transformation that prepares ground for construction, development or access roads. The customers it names are homeowners, landowners, farmers and property managers, and the work is aimed at homesites, acreage, pastures, lots and storm-affected land. The counties the company lists for itself are fewer and more southerly than the register's fifteen, being Hardee, Polk, Hillsborough, Manatee, Desoto, Highlands, Osceola, Okeechobee and Charlotte, with Bartow, Lakeland, Sarasota, Sebring and Wauchula named as the towns. Estimates are free and given on site, and the company says it works on low overhead with competitive pricing, but no rate or figure of any kind is published. Nothing on the site describes timber cruising, appraisal, or representing a landowner in a timber sale. As described on aalandmaintenance.com, read 23 September 2026.

Dynamic Habitat Solutions describes itself as a faith and family-based land and habitat management company serving landowners across Florida and Alabama from 1800 North Century Boulevard in McDavid; the Florida Forest Service vendor register lists it as covering all 67 Florida counties. Owner Coy McKenna leads the company, and the about page says he spent more than 13 years in law enforcement before following his passion and growing what had been evening and weekend work for landowners into a full-time business. The company sets out a three-step approach: a free consultation to evaluate the land and the owner's goals, a customized management plan built around those goals, a timeline and a budget, then the work itself. For woodland owners the relevant offers are prescribed fire, drum chopping and forestry mulching. The mulching page explains that specialized machinery shreds thick brush, cedar and invasive saplings into a fine layer of ground cover, which keeps topsoil intact and removes the need for hauling or burn piles, and says the company uses it to help private landowners in the Southeast prepare land for future use, improve wildlife visibility and manage timberland health, as well as to take out ladder fuels and underbrush that carry wildfire, open overgrown trails for hunting, recreation or site development, and reclaim choked woodland as open habitat. Pond work fills more of the site than anything else: pond cleaning and weed removal, shoreline and bank repair, leaking ponds and damaged dams, sediment and muck removal to restore depth, water quality testing, aeration systems and decorative fountains, and control of hydrilla, coontail, giant salvinia, duckweed, alligator weed, cattails, pond grass and lily pads. As described on dynamichabitat.com, read 23 September 2026.

EcoWoodsmen LLC is a forestry consulting firm based on Amelia Island, Florida. It describes its work as providing "sustainable and eco-friendly outcomes" for land with trees. It also lists logging among its trades. On the timber side, EcoWoodsmen LLC offers timber cruises and inventories, timber appraisals, timber harvests and thinnings, reforestation, and help with Tree Farm certification and the Florida Forest Stewardship program. For land under conservation, it lists easement application support, baseline documentation reports, and easement monitoring. It also does forest stand and ecological habitat mapping, prescribed fire, fuels management, and firebreaks. The firm names two credentials: SAF Certified Forester and Florida Certified Burner. Its listed counties include Nassau, Duval, Clay and St. Johns, along with many others. It suits a landowner who wants one firm to handle timber work, habitat mapping, easement paperwork and prescribed fire together. From ecowoodsmen.com, read 18 October 2026.

F4 Tech is a Tallahassee forestry and natural resource analytics firm listed with the Florida Forest Service as a forest management consultant and recorded there as serving all 67 Florida counties. The company says it was founded in 1998 by Mark Milligan, under the earlier name LandMark Systems, describes itself as “Leaders in Natural Resource Management and Analytics Since 1998,” and publishes a staff of 15 professionals averaging 20 years of experience: foresters, ecologists, wildlife biologists and analysts. On the land management side it states it handles forest inventory, timber sales — acting as fiduciary in sale administration, with load and scale ticket management, payments and timber-theft tracking — site preparation, reforestation, silviculture, prescribed burning, ecological restoration in longleaf pine and wiregrass communities, and invasive and exotic species control, and says it applies these “regardless of ownership type, project size, or project complexity.” Its technical side offers forest, landcover and habitat mapping, inventory cruise design and analysis, growth and yield modelling, forest management planning, advanced GIS and remote sensing including LiDAR, FAA-licensed drone data acquisition, and its own SilvAssist forest inventory software, and the firm states it is an Esri Silver-Level Business Partner. The client types it names are the Department of Defense, state government, private landowners, utilities, non-profit organizations, timberland investment organizations and the U.S. Forest Service, and a related real estate arm trades as the F4 Land Investment Group of Tarpon Blue Realty Services, Inc. As described on thinkf4.com, read 22 September 2026.

Forest Environmental Solutions, LLC is a forestry and land management consulting firm listed with the Florida Forest Service as a forest management consultant and recorded there as serving 48 Florida counties. The firm describes itself as “a forestry and land management consulting firm based in Dade City, Florida,” established in February 2008 by managing member Joseph Gocsik, who says he served as timber forester on the 152,000-acre Withlacoochee State Forest from 1997 and then as a senior consulting forester and division manager at a private forestry firm until January 2008. It offers services throughout the entire state of Florida to non-industrial private landowners, municipalities, counties, water management districts, and state and federal agencies, with a published menu running from afforestation and reforestation, forest management planning, mapping, prescribed burning, site preparation, site maintenance, timber sale assistance and timber valuation to wildlife habitat management, environmental land management, mitigation, reclamation and restoration, certified arborist work, and expert witness testimony in hearings, depositions and trials. The firm says its work “incorporates, and is framed by, the morals and Code of Ethics of the Association of Consulting Foresters, International Society of Arboriculture, and Society of American Foresters,” and it publishes no minimum tract size, stating instead that “no challenge is too big, no landowner too small.” As described on fesfl.com, read 22 September 2026.

Giddens Land Management LLC is a land clearing and site work business in Fleming Island, Florida. It has operated since 2021. Most of its work is clearing: land clearing, lot clearing, clearing and grubbing, and forestry mulching, along with mechanical fuel reduction. It also does grading, hauling, demolition, access roads and trails, fence lines and survey lines. Work is listed in Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Flagler, Nassau, Putnam, St. Johns and Union counties. The business holds a Florida Certified Burner certification. The business puts safety first. "Safety is our top priority." It describes strict safety protocols meant to protect its crew, clients and the general public. The phone number is (904) 864 8607. It suits a landowner who needs brush, lots or fence lines cleared, graded or mulched in one of those counties, rather than someone to buy standing timber or write a management plan. From giddenslandmgmt.com, read 18 October 2026.

Listed with the Florida Forest Service as a forest management consultant across 67 Florida counties, with aerial and ground herbicide application, prescribed fire, planting services, a plant nursery and native seeding recorded on the register, and a Florida Certified Burner and Florida Licensed Commercial Pesticide Applicator against the name. On its own site the business presents three divisions, ecosystem restoration, environmental services and property management, and industrial support. It says it was "founded in 2005 by a small team of professionals dedicated to providing our customers quality products in Ecosystem Restoration", with staff who "bring over 100 years of combined experience". Its customers, the company says, "range from small private businesses to large industrial clients", among them state and federal agencies, large infrastructure companies, energy supply and delivery companies and the mining industry; the project it features is erosion control within the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan. That erosion-control work is described in terms of silt fence, floc logs, granular soil products, coconut matting, hydroseeding and sodding. Brush removal and mastication are offered for cases where heavy equipment or a prescribed burn is not an option, using rubber-track, rubber-tyre and steel-track carriers and an excavator-mounted brush cutter. Alongside those sit commercial mowing, landscaping and irrigation, bush hog and tractor work, earthwork, excavation and hauling, fencing, pump and pipe crews, and labour crews for plant and field work. On job size the site claims range rather than a floor: "whether your project is one acre or a thousand". Credentials are published against named staff rather than the company, among them FDACS licensed pesticide applicators, a DOF prescribed burn manager, an FDEP qualified stormwater inspector, FFWCC gopher tortoise authorised agents, MSHA Part 48 instructors and an FAA UAS pilot, and the firm says it maintains corporate compliance with MSHA, OSHA and EPA regulations. Nothing on the site describes timber sales, cruising or forest management plans. As described on gliearth.com, read 23 September 2026.

King Forestry, Inc. is a consulting firm in Green Cove Springs, Florida, that advises public and private owners on all aspects of forestry management. It has operated since 1996. Its services include forest management, prescribed burning, timber volume and value estimates, timber sales marketing and administration, reforestation, wildfire suppression and mitigation, and GIS and GPS mapping. It also offers land and timber appraisals and real estate brokerage. The firm works on a fee or contract basis and acts as the owner's agent in timber sales. In its own words, "We do not purchase or take possession of timber to harvest and re-sell." Once a Forest Management Plan is developed and finalized to meet the owner's objectives, the firm carries out the field work under its contracts. Credentials include SAF Certified Forester, Association of Consulting Foresters, Georgia Registered Forester, Alabama Registered Forester and Florida Real Estate Broker. Counties served are Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Duval, Flagler, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Marion, Nassau, Putnam, St. Johns, Suwannee, Taylor, Union and Volusia. This firm suits owners who want a written plan and a contract, with an adviser working for them rather than buying their timber. From kingforestry.com, read 18 October 2026.

Kissimmee Valley Foresters is a forestry consulting firm in Babson Park, Florida, at 660 Rainbow Blvd. Sam Van Hook founded it in 1991. The firm works for the landowner, and it puts that point first: "the landowner, not the timber company." It does not buy timber, so it says there is no conflict of interest. It works with several timber buyers and picks from several contract logging crews to get the highest return possible on a sale. Its services include prescribed fire, timber management and sales, tree planting, mitigation bank services, property management, seed harvest, forest management plans and drone services. The planting work centers on longleaf pine, slash pine and South Florida slash. The firm says it plants an average of 250,000 pine seedlings, wiregrass plugs and other native species each year, using hand crews and mechanical planters. For burns, it says a minimum crew of four certified prescribed burners works each job. Florida Certified Burner is among its listed certifications, and Zach Van Hook holds certifications as a certified burn manager, tree farm inspector and herbicide applicator. Its listed counties include Highlands, Polk, Osceola, Lake, Lee and Volusia, and its website says it works with landowners across Florida. This firm suits a landowner who wants a consultant working only for them on a timber sale and who may also need burning, planting or seed work done on the same land. From kissimmeevalleyforesters.com, read 18 October 2026.

Kissimmee Valley Foresters is a forestry consulting firm in Babson Park, Florida, founded in the spring of 1991 by Sam Van Hook. Its work covers prescribed fire, timber management and sales, tree planting, seed harvest, forest management plans, property management, mitigation bank services and drone services. It works in Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Brevard, Broward, Calhoun, Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lake, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Pasco, Polk, Sarasota, St. Lucie and Volusia counties. On timber, the firm's own line is "As consultants, KVF works for YOU." It does not buy timber, so it says there is no conflict of interest, and it works with several timber buyers and several contract logging crews, picking the crew that fits each job. The species it names are longleaf pine, slash pine and South Florida slash. Prescribed burns run with a minimum crew of four certified prescribed burners, and safety is its top priority. Florida Certified Burner is among its stated certifications. Each year it plants an average of 250,000 pine seedlings, wire grass plugs and other native species, using contract hand crews or its own mechanical planters. Zach Van Hook holds certifications as a certified burn manager, tree farm inspector and herbicide applicator. Sam Van Hook spent thirty years as a federal forester at the Avon Park Bombing Range before expanding the company. It suits a landowner who wants a consultant working for them on a timber sale, or who needs burning, planting or native seed work in one of those counties. From kissimmeevalleyforesters.com, read 18 October 2026.

Legacy Appraisal Services works from High Springs and is listed with the Florida Forest Service for timberland and farmland appraisal across all sixty-seven Florida counties, but its own site aims much wider and much higher up the ownership scale. The headline reads 'Specialists in All Aspects of Timberland Investment Valuation', and the firm describes itself as specialising in the valuation and financial analysis of the timberland asset across the entire Southeast, Northeast, Appalachian states and Lake States regions of the United States, as well as Central and South America, with region pages for each. The services page is built around four headings: timberland portfolio valuations, due diligence, ownership rights and encumbrances, and estate planning and fractional ownership. In practice that covers quarterly, annual and biannual valuations for investment performance reporting, identifying and valuing higher and better use opportunities, cash flow modelling and harvest scheduling on acquisitions and dispositions, financial optimisation and sensitivity analysis, and market valuations of undivided family interests for federal gift tax, estate tax compliance, intergenerational transfer and partitioning. The about page says the firm routinely values conservation easements, mitigation banks and lease fee and leasehold ownership, and extends to mineral income and carbon credits where a portfolio includes them. The clients it names are largely institutional, among them timberland investment management organisations, trust funds and endowments, conservation groups and land trusts, forest products companies, banks and wealth managers, pension and hedge funds, estate lawyers and government agencies, alongside private landowners. Staff are described as MAI and certified general appraisers licensed in every state the firm works in, with a combined 50 years of experience in the forest products industry; Scott Brodbeck, Jesse Studley and Scott Twillmann are the three people named. Work claimed since 2015 runs to over 38 million acres valued in the Southeast and over 12 million across the Northeast, Lake States and Appalachia. As described on legacyappraisal.biz, read 23 September 2026.

Legacy Arborist Services is the arboriculture and urban forestry division of Natural Resource Planning Services, Inc. (NRPS), listed with the Florida Forest Service as a forest management consultant and recorded there as serving all 67 Florida counties. NRPS says it has been providing consulting forestry and natural resource services since 1974, when it was founded by Jack Vogel and Tom Mastin, and that its consulting foresters, wildlife biologists, ecologists and other natural resource professionals work from two Florida offices; the firm's own site names the San Antonio office at 32745 Pennsylvania Ave and publishes the (352) 588-2580 number held here. Of this division the company says Legacy Arborist Services “provides innovative solutions and state-of-the-art arboricultural and urban forestry services to public and private clientele,” and its staff listing for the San Antonio office names ISA Certified Arborists, Tree Risk Assessment Qualified staff, an ASCA Registered Consulting Arborist, an ISA Certified Utility and Urban Forestry Arborist, and three principals who are full members of the Association of Consulting Foresters. The wider firm is organised into forestry, wildlife, real estate, arborist, environmental and appraisal divisions: its forestry division states over 300,000 acres under management and offers timber inventory and valuation, timber and pine straw sales assistance, GIS mapping, reforestation, ecosystem restoration, prescribed burning, forest management plans, timberland management, investment analysis and mine reclamation, while its environmental division covers threatened and endangered species and habitat management, wetland delineation and restoration, conservation easement and mitigation bank consulting, gopher tortoise management and vegetation management. NRPS says its clients include private landowners, timberland investment management organizations, conservation organizations, government agencies and municipalities, and forest industry. As described on nrpsforesters.com, read 22 September 2026.

Legacy Forestry Services is the forestry practice of Natural Resource Planning Services, Inc. (NRPS) working out of Lake City, listed with the Florida Forest Service as a forest management consultant and recorded there as serving 28 Florida counties. NRPS says it has been providing consulting forestry and natural resource services since 1974, when it was founded by Jack Vogel and Tom Mastin, and works from two Florida offices; the company's own site names the Lake City office at 356 NW Lake City Ave, publishes the (386) 438-5896 number held here, and lists its Lake City forestry staff, among them a principal who is a full member of the Association of Consulting Foresters, several SAF Certified Foresters, a division manager, a field services manager, a GIS specialist and forest technicians. The firm states that its forestry division has over 300,000 acres under management and offers timber inventory and valuation, timber and pine straw sales assistance, GIS mapping and GPS services, reforestation, ecosystem restoration, prescribed burning, forest management plans, timberland management, investment analysis and mine reclamation. Its clients, it says, include private landowners, timberland investment management organizations, conservation organizations, government agencies and municipalities, and forest industry, and its Legacy Wildlife Services division is also based at Lake City, handling hunting lease management and wildlife management consulting in Florida, Georgia and the southeastern United States. Alongside forestry the firm runs real estate, arborist, environmental and appraisal divisions, the last specialising in due diligence and valuation of large timberland ownerships. As described on nrpsforesters.com, read 22 September 2026.

MLM Private Forester, Inc. is a forestry consulting firm based in Monticello, Florida. It handles timber sales and forest management plans, and it pairs that work with wildlife management for owners who hunt or want better game habitat. On the timber side, it can estimate how much timber you have and what it is worth, assess the market and time the harvest, and prepare and market the timber sales packages. It develops the sale contract, obtains the necessary permits, and supervises the logging to make sure it follows the contract. Other work includes boundary line location, timber cruising, prescribed burning, site preparation, tree planting and timber health checks. Planting is done mostly in winter, most often after December 1 and before March 15. For timber health, the firm uses aerial and ground surveillance to look for outbreaks. Its foresters are "careful to protect the landowner's investments" and aim to leave the property in good condition for replanting. Wildlife work covers trophy deer management, waterfowl and duck management, turkey management, food plots and hunting lease management. Its credentials include a Georgia Registered Forester, a Florida Certified Burner and a Florida Licensed Commercial Pesticide Applicator. Counties served include Leon, Gadsden, Jefferson and Monroe, among many others. It suits owners who want one firm to handle a timber sale and the wildlife on the same land. From privateforester.com, read 18 October 2026.

Natives of Corkscrew Nursery + Environmental is a native-plant nursery and environmental contractor in Lee County, listed here from the Florida Forest Service vendor database, where it appears among forest management consultants across fourteen Florida counties. Its own site describes two halves to the business. On the nursery side it says that since 2015 it has grown to be one of the largest all-native nurseries in Florida, specializing in native plants, grasses, shrubs and trees, and in locally grown trees, shrubs and flowers — especially flowers that attract butterflies, which it notes are chosen deliberately to bring pollinators into an outdoor space. Its published nursery services are an extensive native species inventory, expert knowledge of Florida native plants, help selecting species for a landscape project, prompt statewide delivery, and contract growing, which the site explains lets a project's plant needs be fulfilled to specification and on budget when planned ahead. The environmental half offers environmental preserve restoration, with a stated specialty in lake restoration, lake enhancement, littoral shelf maintenance and protected species management; gopher tortoise work is named as the primary focus, and relocating gopher tortoises as one of its specialties. Its environmental services list covers FDEP wetland and upland determinations, exotic vegetation removal and maintenance, preserve and lake monitoring, gopher tortoise and burrowing owl surveys with FWC permitting, and licensed mangrove trimming. The company states it is licensed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to perform burrowing owl permitting, and that it serves individuals, businesses, organizations and government agencies. The nursery keeps posted hours Tuesday through Saturday, Monday by appointment. As described on nativesofcorkscrew.com, read 23 September 2026.

Natural Resources Associates is an environmental and ecological consultancy rather than a timber-consulting firm, and the distinction matters for a landowner deciding whom to call. Its staff page says the firm has been serving Sarasota and Charlotte counties and surrounding areas since 2014, and that its environmental staff has over sixty combined years of experience with the area's ecosystems and wildlife; with the Florida Forest Service it lists a service area of fourteen Florida counties, from Alachua, Baker and Bradford in the north to Broward and Lee in the south. The services page names its most common work as protected species surveys, permitting, relocation and mitigation; wetland delineation, permitting and mitigation; land management and wildlife management; prescribed fire plans and implementation; fire mitigation and protection consultation; nuisance wildlife deterrent and removal; GIS mapping; and photographic services. Its wildlife and land management page adds habitat management, ecosystem restoration, vegetation reduction, management plan writing, wildfire risk reduction and, in the firm's own wording, 'forest & timber management assistance' - one line in a nine-item list. The permitting pages set out in detail how Florida scrub-jay, gopher tortoise and bald eagle surveys and mitigation work, and how county ordinances covering grand and heritage trees are handled. Founder and president Phillip Brouse is described as a Florida Certified Prescribed Burn Manager who has worked with GPS and GIS mapping since 1997, after posts with Sarasota County, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Charlotte County's environmental parks. Senior ecologist Debbie Blanco spent 22 years as an environmental land manager with Sarasota County and is a certified burn manager and licensed natural areas herbicide applicator. Ellie Brouse works as administrative assistant and project coordinator while serving as field ecologist for the Cape Coral and south Charlotte County areas. As described on naturalresourcesassociates.com, read 23 September 2026.

Panhandle Forestry Services, Inc. is a natural resource management company that provides professional forestry and wildlife management services for both private and corporate landowners in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. It was founded in November 2000 by David Morris and Barry McGaughey, both professional foresters who had worked for large industrial paper mills and sawmills, and the first office opened in Chipley with Cheryl Martin as controller and office manager. The published service list covers forest management plans, forest inventory, timber type maps, GIS and soil mapping, cost and income analysis, timber sales, reforestation and tree planting, prescribed burning, herbicide and fertilization applications, mechanical site preparation, mulching, road maintenance, wildlife management plans, timber harvesting and hurricane damage cleanup. In 2007 the founders partnered with Dwayne Taylor of D&S Logging to form Chipola Timber Harvesting, Inc., the company owned logging arm, whose crew foremen are described as master logger certified in Florida and trained in the state's best management practices, and which handles work from the first thinning of young pine plantations to the clear cut harvest of mature stands. The company states that in 2022 it harvested and delivered over 1.1 million tons of timber and reforested more than 2,500 acres for private non-industrial landowners. As described on panhandleforestry.net, read 22 September 2026.

Listed with the Florida Forest Service as a forest management consultant across 67 Florida counties, offering silvicultural and agri-services, consulting, land and forest management, wildlife management and property management, with a Florida Certified Burner and a Florida Licensed Commercial Pesticide Applicator recorded against the name. The company's own site fills that in. It bills itself as "Ecofriendly Forestry and Agricultural Services" and states a mission "to help conserve our environment through projects that help to ensure the success of responsible land use and a healthy ecosystem". Its account of its beginning is that the firm "has been working toward restoring Florida to a healthy ecosystem since 2005", when owner Brannen Willis was given the job of restoring a Central Florida conservation area and more requests followed. The site lists a Herbicide Commercial Applicator License and Florida Prescribed Burn certification against Willis's name, and describes its aquatic applicators as certified and licensed by the State of Florida. The published service list is specific: site preparation, forestry mulching, roller drum chopping, land clearing, brush mulching and mowing, bush hogging, prescribed burning with fireline work and state burn permitting, reforestation, habitat and environmental restoration, aquatic management, licensed herbicide application, exotic species treatment, biomass harvesting, native planting, food plots, farm and forestry road building, and loader, dozer and discing work. On timber the company says it manages the sale for the landowner: designating the trees to be cut, putting an inventory to area loggers for competitive bid, preparing a sale inventory of board footage, species and tree numbers, and administering and negotiating the contract between timber buyer and landowner. It also produces maps from GPS field data, including timber inventory and wetland delineation, and says private landowners can use its forest management plans to satisfy tax requirements. The site says the firm works for public and private landowners "in all of Florida and Southern Georgia". As described on promisehabitatservices.com, read 23 September 2026.

Southern Forestry Consultants lists this Monticello office with the Florida Forest Service as a forest management consultant covering twenty-five Florida counties: Jefferson itself and the surrounding Big Bend and eastern panhandle through Leon, Wakulla, Madison, Taylor, Lafayette and Liberty, a northern block running Hamilton, Suwannee, Columbia, Baker, Union, Bradford, Alachua, Dixie and Levy. Registered there are timber sales and appraisals, forest management plans, reforestation, spraying and tree planting, prescribed burning and real estate sales, with SAF Certified Forester, Association of Consulting Foresters and Georgia Registered Forester credentials and Florida certified burner and commercial pesticide applicator licences. The firm's own site confirms the office: under the heading Monticello, FL it publishes 2897 South Jefferson Street and hours of eight to five, Monday to Friday. Everything else it says is written firm-wide. SFC says it was founded in 1988 in Bainbridge, Georgia by two foresters to serve north Florida and southwest Georgia, and now lists offices at Bainbridge, Monticello, Enterprise in Alabama, Marquette in Michigan, Hattiesburg in Mississippi, Columbia in South Carolina and Kalispell in Montana, staffed by a team it credits with more than 250 years of combined experience. It describes itself as a natural resource management and consulting firm working for non-industrial, industrial, NGO and governmental owners primarily in the southeastern United States, and states its independence plainly: a forestry consultant, it says, is not employed by mills, loggers or associations and owes good faith only to the landowner, acting as the landowner's exclusive agent in selling timber. Four service pillars are published, being timber sales administration and marketing, forest management, forest planning and appraisal, and forestland improvement, with stated emphases running from inventory, appraisal and auditing through reforestation and harvest oversight to BMP compliance, prescribed burning and invasive species management. Geospatial, ecological and land-brokerage affiliates are carried on the same site. As described on soforest.com, read 23 September 2026.

Southern Habitats is a native plant nursery and habitat restoration contractor based at Greenville, listed with the Florida Forest Service as serving all sixty-seven Florida counties, though on its own site the only region it names is the Southeast generally. The services page puts the work plainly: 'We specialize in collecting and propagating southeastern herbaceous native plants and seeds. We use this material for projects involving groundcover restoration, wetland mitigation, erosion control, habitat improvement, aesthetic treatments and more.' The same page lists wild seed collection and processing, direct seeding, live plant installation, contract growing, bioengineering, native plant and seed sales, herbicide application, a licensed nursery, mowing and brush clearing, and wildlife food plots. Its stated speciality is fire-adapted ecosystems, and the sequence it describes is deliberate: restore the native grass base first, because grasses carry the fine fuel a thorough prescribed burn needs, then introduce wildflowers, forbs and legumes once the grass stand has taken. Seed is wild harvested from donor sites near the project, mechanically for the grass bulk and by hand for many wildflowers, then cleaned, tested and treated for dormancy before planting. The business says it grows hundreds of thousands of native grass and wildflower plugs in its nursery, keeps many species in field cultivation for seed production, and offers wild-collected and field-grown seed mixes for wet or dry sites, with published species lists for upland clayhills and sandhills, flatwoods and shallow wetlands. Separate pages address hunters managing quail, turkey, deer and dove ground, golf courses converting out-of-play areas, city and state parks, farmers working under EQIP and backyard gardeners, and the hunting page cites 25 years of experience managing groundcover for quail. Bare root switchgrass is described as its most versatile product. It is a member of the Florida Wildflower Seed and Plant Growers Association. As described on southernhabitats.com, read 23 September 2026.

TerraWorx Land Group, Inc (TLG) describes itself as "a multi-disciplinary company whose staff has been offering our clients a multitude of ecological, environmental, land management and property services for over 25 years," adding that "Paramount is our ability to provide creative and innovative ideas in an effort to resolve a myriad of issues, design challenges, and regulatory concerns that our clients often encounter." The home page carries the line "Other's will tell you what you can't do, We tell you what you can." Its services page groups the work under three headings. Ecological services: preliminary ecological assessments including GIS and LIDAR evaluations, wetland assessment and delineation, protected species assessment and surveys, regulatory permitting covering both State Environmental Resource Permitting and Federal 404 wetland permitting, wetland mitigation bank design, permitting and management, mitigation design and planting, invasive species control, and "project design alternatives to maximize site use while minimizing mitigation/construction costs." Environmental services: Phase I Environmental Site Assessments, Phase II ESAs and testing, environmental remediation and clean-up, brownfields and incentive programs, and development design alternatives. Land management services: "heavy under brushing utilizing skid steer mounted grinding head mowers," herbicide application, removal of invasives such as Chinese tallow and Brazilian pepper, installation of native plant material for habitat restoration, timber management and planning, wildlife habitat design and management, and Natural Resource Conservation Service grant programs. Its image gallery, captioned as "some of our highlighted services," shows before-and-after mowing and prescribed burning. The only geography the company publishes is two offices — 88 Riberia St. Suite 360, St. Augustine, FL 32084 and 110N Gross Rd, Kingsland, GA 31548 — with no service area, counties or radius named anywhere; the home page is titled "Environmental Consulting | TerraWorx Land Group | United States." No founding year is given (the "over 25 years" is a staff-experience claim), no staff member is named, no certification or licence number appears, and no minimum tract size is published. Nothing on the site says the company buys standing timber: "timber management and planning" is one line among roughly twenty. This listing sits under forestry consultants; the company presents itself first as an ecological and environmental consultancy and a land-clearing and mitigation contractor, so it should not be read as a timber-side forestry practice. (source: terraworxlandgroup.com, read 23 September 2026)

The Forestry Company is a forestry consulting business in Perry, Florida. It works with landowners who want more income from their timber and better wildlife habitat on their land. Its staff can develop and carry out a forest management plan, so the owner does not have to run it alone. On timber, the business markets your timber, manages the harvest, and follows Silviculture Best Management Practices. It uses a timber security system during harvest to keep the accounting straight and make sure payment comes through. Timber cruisers use hand-held computers to measure volume and product classes, and the business can provide a full appraisal under the Uniform Standards of Appraisal Practice. Other work includes prescribed burning, wildfire suppression, site preparation, herbicide and fertilizer application, reforestation, wildlife management, and real estate sales. Its operators run a fleet of heavy equipment for the toughest site prep and burning jobs. As the business puts it, "We handle all of the details for you." It lists credentials including Georgia Registered Forester, Florida Certified Burner, Florida Licensed Commercial Pesticide Applicator, Certified Real Estate Appraiser, Florida Real Estate Broker, and the Association of Consulting Foresters. Counties named include Alachua, Leon, Taylor, Walton and Washington, among many others. It suits owners who want one firm to handle the timber sale, the burn, the planting and the paperwork, and who want wildlife included in the plan. From theforestrycompany.com, read 18 October 2026.

Workman Forestry, LLC is a tree care and arborist consulting firm in Gainesville, Florida. Tom Workman, its owner and founder, started the business in 2010. Its main work is tree trimming, tree removal, and arborist advice. Its services also include timber sales, site prep and planting, prescribed burning, fire lines, mowing, mulching, boundary clearing, and permitting help. It serves residential, commercial, and government customers in Gainesville and surrounding areas, and it covers Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Columbia, Gilchrist, Levy, Marion, Putnam, and Union counties. The staff holds ISA Certified Arborist, ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualification (TRAQ), and Florida ISA Prescription Pruning Qualification credentials, and the firm lists a Florida Certified Burner credential. The arborist does tree inspections and formal risk assessments that give "a documented basis for decisions." She can also help owners with permitting requirements and with questions about who owns a tree. Live oaks get particular attention, and the firm advises pruning them every 3 to 5 years. Free estimates are offered, and the firm carries insurance. For removals, crews use bucket trucks or lightweight aerial lifts, lay ground protection mats to limit ruts in the yard, and chip the debris on site. Mulch delivery to the Gainesville area is also offered. Workman Forestry, LLC suits a landowner who wants a certified arborist to look at the trees on the property before any cutting decision is made, and who would like tree work and timber sales handled by the same firm. From workmanforestry.com, read 18 October 2026.

Carter Environmental Services (CES) describes itself as a wetlands, protected species and environmental permitting consulting company located in Northeast Florida, working for public and private sector clients statewide; its home page calls it a family owned business offering personalized, responsive services to landowners and developers who need to obtain local, state and federal environmental permits. The Florida Forest Service vendor register lists it as serving two Florida counties, Brevard and St. Johns, while the firm's own about page claims statewide coverage. Its services page sets out six areas: protected species assessment and permitting, where it says it commonly works with gopher tortoises, ospreys and bald eagles; wetland assessment and delineation, using GIS review of historic infrared and color aerials, contours, soils, National Wetland Inventory and topographic maps before delineating and GPS-mapping the limits in the field; permitting with counties, the Department of Environmental Protection, the St. Johns River Water Management District and the Army Corps of Engineers; dock and dredge permitting; mitigation planning and design, including wetland preservation, restoration, creation or the purchase of mitigation bank credits; and land management services. That last block is the one a timberland owner would want. The firm says it works to client objectives covering wildlife utilization, silvicultural practices, wildfire prevention and exotic or nuisance species control, with tools including a burn team with two certified burn bosses, a fully licensed timber crew, and a wildlife biologist experienced in manipulating habitat for wildlife. Its expertise list also names tree assessments and 'Land Management and Timber Evaluation'. Nine staff are named, among them Ryan Carter, a certified professional wetland scientist and FWC-authorized gopher tortoise agent with 20 years in the environmental field, Lynne Carter, who manages daily operations, and Chris Walls, a certified arborist who performs the tree inventories and vegetation and exotic plant control. As described on carterenv.com, read 23 September 2026.

This is the Marianna entry on the Florida Forest Service's forest products buyer list, where F & W Forestry Services registers for pinestraw, upland timber and wetland timber and names twenty-two Florida counties: the western panhandle from Escambia, Santa Rosa and Okaloosa across Walton, Holmes, Washington, Bay, Calhoun, Jackson, Gulf, Franklin and Liberty to Gadsden, Leon, Jefferson and Wakulla, with a separate northern and central block taking in Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Brevard and Broward. The company's own website is a national corporate one that names no office locations at all, Florida's included; it says only that F&W's foresters are located throughout the United States, South America and Europe, and points visitors to a find-your-forester map. What it does set out is the firm behind the local contact. F&W says it was founded in 1962 by Eley Frazer and Frank Wetherbee, is headquartered in Albany, Georgia, and manages millions of acres of forestland worldwide. Its published timeline runs from regional inventories and forestland appraisals in the 1970s, through a decade in which the firm went from 25 employees in two states to 100 in eight, to work in Uruguay and Brazil and a Tree Farm Group certification in the 2000s, a stake in the French firm Cabinet Courdert in 2014, the acquisition of Fountains US and UK in 2016, and the FWS Forestry partnership with Stuntzner Engineering & Forestry in 2020. Eight service lines are published: timber sales, property management, field support services for TIMOs and REITs, forest inventory and mapping, forestland accounting, technical and analytical work, real estate and natural capital. On timber sales the firm describes pre-harvest valuations reporting species, age and condition, sale prescriptions and marketing to match timber to the best market, then on-site harvest supervision: harvest inspections and reporting, streamside management zone delineation, BMP compliance audits, timber marking, boundary re-marking, road maintenance oversight, drone monitoring, and Phase I Environmental Site Assessment during property transactions. None of it is written about the Marianna office in particular. As described on fwforestry.com, read 23 September 2026.

Diamond Timber, Inc. is a family-owned timber buyer in Middleburg, Florida, in Northeast Florida. Its main trade is buying timber and pulpwood, and it also does logging and timber consulting and management. Kent Williams owns the business. He and his wife Debbie started logging together in 1985, and the company was founded in 1995. Pulpwood is the only species the business names. It takes on tracts of one acre or larger, and it gives a free estimate with no obligation. If you want advice before you decide, it offers consultations meant to give you enough information to choose what is right for your timber and land. The company employs several people and runs its own fleet of trucks and equipment, and it says "no job is too big or too small." Diamond Timber, Inc. is insured and is a member of the Southeastern Wood Producers Association. It was a runner-up for Logger of the Year in 2008. Clay County is the county it names as one it serves. The business also says it still serves local farm and community needs while selling to industrial customers across Florida and the Southeast. It suits a landowner with at least an acre of pulpwood who wants a free estimate from a firm that does its own logging and has its own crew and trucks. From diamondtimber.net, read 18 October 2026.

Triangle Timber is a logging company based in Hilliard, Florida. It also does forestry consulting and timber buying, so one firm can cover more than the cut itself. The office is at 37387 Henry Smith Rd. The services are wood procurement, marketing timber, forestry oversight and management, logging, and reforestation. For a timber purchase, the wood procurement team handles the contract and acts as "a single point of contact for all your needs." Marketing help covers reaching the right channels and aiming for higher-value deals. Forestry management means a custom plan for your woodland, built around your economic, social and environmental goals and the rules that apply to it. The logging crew is experienced, fully trained and certified, and works to keep the harvest safe, efficient and on time. The machinery has GPS, so you can get job information remotely with a few clicks. After the harvest, Triangle Timber replants the woods and takes steps to make sure the new trees grow to maturity. Its reforestation work covers Florida and Georgia, and Nassau County is part of its service area. It suits a landowner in Florida or Georgia who wants one firm to handle the timber sale, the cut and the replanting afterward. From triangletimber.com, read 18 October 2026.

Canal Wood LLC is a timber marketing, management and logging company, headquartered in Conway, South Carolina, with offices in seven southeastern states. Its listing places it in Marianna, Florida, in Jackson County. The company was established in 1937. It handles timber marketing and management, harvesting, forest management, inspections, mapping, appraisals, harvest planning, and aerial and satellite photography. It also uses infrared photography to identify tree species. It buys veneer logs, sawtimber, chip-n-saw, pulpwood and fuel chips, and works with mixed hardwood and pine stands, pine plantations and bottomland hardwoods. For landowners, the company starts with a consultation. It assesses each stand, works out what the landowner wants, works to get the right price for each type of timber, then harvests and hauls the timber to the mills. The company is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. The smallest acreage its pages show is 10.03 acres, the Maxton 510 Tract, which it has listed for sale. It describes itself as the "largest independent timber merchant in the Southeast," and it has over 100 timber buyers on staff. It suits a landowner who wants one firm to assess the stands, find the mills, and handle the cutting and hauling. From canalwood.com, read 3 October 2026.

B & B Dugger Inc is a "family owned and operated" forestry and land management company in Crawfordville, Florida, in Wakulla County. Bobbie Dugger started the business in 1980. His sons Dalton and Easton are now its president and vice president. The firm works across North Florida and South Georgia, and it says it is licensed and insured to work on private, state, and federally owned land. Its forestry work includes consulting, timber sales, pre-commercial thinning, commercial thinning, chipping, clearcutting, timber marking and cruising, and GIS mapping with drone photography. It also does prescribed burning, mechanical site preparation, herbicide work, mowing and mulching, road and pond work, pine tree planting, and land clearing. If the firm does not own a machine a job needs, it says it rents one. The team holds several state and federal credentials. Dalton Dugger is a forester with a bachelor's degree in forest resource management from the University of Florida. Between them they hold Florida certifications for prescribed burn management, herbicide application, and pile burning, along with Type 1 and Type 2 wildland firefighter ratings, a Class A CDL, and a commercial drone pilot license. This suits a landowner who wants timber cut and the land worked, with burning, planting, and mapping handled by the same family firm. From bandbdugger.com, read 18 October 2026.