Selling Timber in Hamilton County, FL
Quick answer
There are 56 timber businesses listed for Hamilton County, Florida: 33 consulting foresters and 23 timber buyers, loggers and mills. 2 of them have offices 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 Hamilton County
No county publishes its own timber prices. These are Florida's published stumpage prices, what landowners are paid for standing timber, and the best public guide to what timber in Hamilton County is bringing. Your own timber can sell above or below them.
| Pine sawtimber | $29 per ton |
| Pine chip-n-saw | $22 per ton |
| Pine pulpwood | $9 per ton |
Source: UF/IFAS Florida Land Steward (summarising Timber Mart-South), Q1 2026. All Florida timber prices
Before you talk to anyone, find out what your timber is worth
Most landowners in Hamilton 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.
No forester is based in Hamilton County
That is normal here and not a problem. Foresters travel, and 33 of them work Hamilton County from an office nearby. They are listed below, closest first. You can also click any county on the map above to see who is based there.
Consulting Foresters Working Hamilton County (33)
Listed on the Florida Forest Service forest products and services directory, covering consulting foresters and forest products buyers, together with the Forest Products Network mill directory as working Hamilton County, from an office elsewhere. Closest first.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills in Hamilton County (2)
These 2 are based in Hamilton County. Being close matters: hauling is one of the biggest costs taken out of your check.
JM TREE hauler LLC is a logging contractor in Jennings, Florida. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Raymond Pitts Logging is a logging contractor in White Springs, Florida. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills Nearby (21)
Businesses that buy, cut or mill timber in Hamilton County, working from a nearby town.
B & M Logging is a logging contractor in White Springs, Florida. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Georgia-Pacific describes itself as a maker of building products, cellulose, packaging, recycled fibre and consumer paper goods - Quilted Northern, Brawny and Dixie among its household brands - operating more than 150 locations worldwide with over 30,000 employees, and it says it has invested $15 billion into its operations since 2014. The company dates its founding to 1927 in a single building in Augusta, Georgia, and is a Koch, Inc. company; that 1927 date belongs to the corporation, not to this Perry record. Its locations page lists Florida among nearly 30 states but does not itemise any individual Florida facility. The single mention of Perry anywhere in the pages read is on Georgia-Pacific's own history timeline, which records that in 2023 the company closed its Foley Cellulose mill in Perry, Florida; the site says nothing about what wood and fibre buying, if any, continues from the One Buckeye Drive address under which the Florida Forest Service register carries this listing, as described on gp.com, read 22 September 2026.
Great South Timber & Lumber, LLC runs two operations in Lake City: a corporate and procurement office at 517 SE Baya Drive, and a sawmill at 1135 FL-100, which is the address carried on this listing. Its about text says the company has been in the wood products business since 1985, with a procurement division that purchases and harvests southern yellow pine timber and a sawmill that manufactures southern yellow pine lumber. The professional staff within the procurement division, the site says, purchases and harvests southern yellow pine for the lumber, pulp and paper industries in the north Florida area; three foresters, Austin Thrasher, Charles S. Corbett and Chase Clark, are listed under procurement alongside procurement manager J. Russ Hannon, which is the group a landowner with pine to sell would be dealing with. The sawmill side supplies the roof truss, wood treating and pallet manufacturing industries, with a focus on dimension machine stress rated (MSR) 2x4; the company says it also produces 1x4, 2x6 and 4x4 products. Robert P. Cook is named president and Robert P. Cook, Jr. vice president, and the staff listing runs to sixteen named people across corporate, procurement and the mill, including a green end manager, a dry end manager and quality control. Under a heading reading 'Proud Members of the Following' the company names the Florida Forestry Association, the Southern Pine Inspection Bureau and the SE Lumber Manufacturer's Association, Inc. As described on gstl.us, read 23 September 2026.
Greenville Timber Corporation is a timber buyer based in Madison, Florida. Its listed trade is buying timber, so it is one of the businesses a landowner can approach when they want to sell the trees on their land. The counties it serves are Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Brevard, Broward, Calhoun, Charlotte, Citrus, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Duval, Flagler, Franklin, Gadsden, Gilchrist, Gulf, Hamilton, Hernando, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lake, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Madison, Pasco, Putnam, St. Johns, Sumter, Suwannee, Taylor, Union and Volusia. That makes thirty-six counties in all. If your woodland sits in one of these counties, Greenville Timber Corporation is a buyer worth knowing about. It suits a landowner who wants to sell timber and has land in one of the counties listed above. From genesistimber.com, read 18 October 2026.
M.A. Rigoni, Inc. is a timber and land-work business based in Perry, Florida. It has operated since 1960 and is now run by the third generation of the family, with seven crews working under it. Its main focus is bio-mass forest products for renewable energy markets, carried out in a way that promotes sustainable forestry practices "for generations to come." Logging is the main trade, with land clearing or site work as another. The services listed are bio-mass production, conventional harvesting, land management, land clearing, site preparation, and reforestation. The president, Chad Schwab, holds the Trained Master Logger credential for Florida and has served on the board of the Florida Forestry Association. The counties served are Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gilchrist, Gulf, Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy, Liberty, Madison, Suwannee, Taylor, Union, and Wakulla. The team also includes two staff in procurement and land management. This business suits a landowner in one of those counties who wants a logger focused on bio-mass, or who needs land cleared, prepared, or replanted. From marigoniinc.com, read 18 October 2026.
Questions landowners ask
How many timber buyers and foresters serve Hamilton County?
56 businesses are listed for Hamilton County: 33 consulting foresters and 23 buyers, loggers and mills. 2 of them have offices in the county.
How much is my timber worth in Hamilton 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. UF/IFAS Florida Land Steward, summarising Timber Mart-South publishes a quarterly Timber Price Update, state-wide average pine stumpage in $/ton, with no hardwood series published, which tells you what the market is doing, not what your tract holds. 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 Hamilton 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? →Do I need a permit to cut timber in Florida?
Florida has no statewide permit and no notification to harvest timber on your own land. The forestry chapters of the state code govern the Forest Service and state-owned land, not a private harvest, and state law puts normal silviculture outside the environmental resource permit that otherwise covers work affecting wetlands and surface water. One filing is easy to mistake for a notification and is not one: the Notice of Intent to Implement is a single voluntary enrolment in the state's silviculture Best Management Practices, filed once rather than for each harvest, and what it buys is a legal presumption that the operation meets state water quality standards. Florida's BMPs sit between voluntary and mandatory — the manual is adopted by rule rather than published as advice, following it is elective until you enrol, and once enrolled a failure to implement is referred to the Department of Environmental Protection. Counties and cities are held back, but only conditionally: they may not regulate or charge a fee for a bona fide farm operation on land carrying the agricultural classification where the state's BMPs are being implemented. Miss any of those three and the local tree or land-clearing ordinance applies in full, so check with your county before work starts. Two things worth knowing before you sign: Florida does not license or register foresters, so a forester's credentials here are professional rather than statutory; and Florida's dealer bonding law, which lets a produce grower claim against a buyer's bond, expressly excludes timber and forest products, so your contract is the only protection you have against a buyer who does not pay.
Permit rules in Florida →What is timber worth in Hamilton County?
No price series is published for Hamilton County on its own. Florida's latest published stumpage figures (UF/IFAS Florida Land Steward (summarising Timber Mart-South), Q1 2026) put pine sawtimber at $29 per ton. 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.