Carter Environmental Services
About Carter Environmental Services
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.
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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