Panhandle Forestry Services, Inc.
About Panhandle Forestry Services, Inc.
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.
Can they handle a timber sale?
Selling standing timber properly takes three things. Here's what the state register credits this firm with.
Timber AppraisalAn estimate of what your standing timber is worth in dollars, based on how much there is, its quality, and current prices. When you are selling, settling an estate, dividing property, or need a value for taxes or insurance.What does this mean? → — not listed
works out what your standing timber is worth
Timber Cruise & Volume EstimateA field measurement of your standing trees — their species, sizes, and quality — that adds up to how much wood you actually have. Before you sell, so you go in knowing roughly what is out there rather than taking a buyer's word for it.What does this mean? → — not listed
measures and grades what's actually out there
Timber Sale & Contract AdministrationRunning the sale for you: advertising the timber, taking bids, writing the contract, and overseeing the logging so the agreed terms are met. When you want someone on your side handling the whole sale rather than dealing with buyers and loggers yourself.What does this mean? → — not listed
runs the sale and handles the contract
This firm isn't credited with all three, which doesn't make it a worse forester — plenty specialise in management planning, wildlife or wetlands. It does mean that if your goal is to sell timber, you'd likely need someone else for the part that's missing.
Everything they're registered for
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