Selling Timber in Columbia County, GA

Big Creek Forestry and Wildlife Consulting, LLC. is a forestry and wildlife consulting firm in Appling, Georgia, at 3556 Ray Owens Road. Aaron Murphy owns and runs it, and it has operated since 2016. Murphy holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Georgia Southern University and a master's in forest resources from the University of Georgia. He is a licensed forester in Georgia and South Carolina. You can reach the office at 706-833-4891. Before starting the firm, Murphy worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where he delineated timber stands and prepared timber sales. The business works in Columbia County. Its forestry services include timber sales, timber inventory, forest management, reforestation, prescribed burning, estate planning, and timberland investment analysis. Timber consultation is $75 an hour. Its wildlife services include wildlife surveys, management plans, habitat assessments, food plot management, native habitat restoration, and integrated pest management. They say they start by setting your goals for the land and then building a plan to meet them. For land that has been cut, they describe the aim as to "put it back better than you found it." This suits a landowner who wants one consultant to plan both the timber and the wildlife side of the property, and who wants a licensed forester involved from the start. From bigcreekfandw.com, read 17 October 2026.

Harris forestry Comsultants, LLC appears on the Georgia Forestry Commission's list of consulting foresters covering Georgia, with an office in Augusta, in Columbia County. The Commission compiles that list from foresters who submit their own details to it; a listing is not an endorsement. The Commission's record marks the firm as: Certified Prescribed Burner; Society of American Foresters member.

Brown Timber & Logging, Inc is on the Georgia Master Timber Harvester active roster, at Evans, Columbia County. Georgia Master Timber Harvester is a training programme; the roster records a current designation and is not a rating, a licence, or an endorsement by anyone. The roster publishes no phone number, so there is none here.

Canal Wood LLC buys timber, runs logging jobs, and gives forestry advice to landowners. It is based in Evans, Georgia, in Columbia County, and its headquarters is in Conway, South Carolina. It has operated since 1937 and has more than 100 timber buyers working from field offices across South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. The work covers timber marketing and management, harvesting, forest management, inspections, mapping, aerial and satellite photography, infrared photography for tree species identification, appraisals, and harvest planning. It handles veneer logs, sawtimber, chip-n-saw, pulpwood, and fuel chips, on mixed hardwood and pine stands, pine plantations, and bottomland hardwoods. The usual route starts with a consultation and an assessment of each stand, then the company finds buyers for each type of timber, harvests it, and hauls it to the mills. It holds the Georgia Master Timber Harvester certification and is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. The smallest job it shows is the Maxton 510 Tract, 10.03 acres of mixed hardwood and pine, so about 10 acres is the smallest size its own work points to. It describes itself as a "single point of contact" for timber management and buying, which suits a landowner who wants one firm to assess the stands, market the timber, and arrange the cutting. It is a fit for a tract of 10 acres or more where the owner wants that full service rather than a logger alone. From canalwood.com, read 3 October 2026.

Dobbs Equipment is an equipment dealer in Grovetown, Georgia, at 1900 William Few Parkway. It sells, rents, finances and services John Deere and Wirtgen Group machines. It does not buy timber or do logging, so if you want someone to cut and haul your trees, look elsewhere. The business calls itself a "full-service John Deere and Wirtgen Group dealership," with 29 locations across Florida, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. The Grovetown location serves Columbia County. For forestry work, it lists John Deere forwarders, skidders, wheeled and tracked harvesters, feller bunchers and knuckleboom loaders, along with Waratah harvester heads. You can buy or finance a machine, or rent one for a single job, and some rent payments can go toward buying it later. Repairs are done by what it calls "John Deere-certified technicians," using genuine John Deere OEM parts. Road technicians can come to a job site for emergency repairs. The site also notes that tracked harvesters give better traction on steep ground and in areas hit hard by rain, and that its team will help you choose between wheeled and tracked models. This suits a landowner or operator who already runs, or plans to run, their own forestry machines and needs to buy, rent or repair them. It does not suit someone looking for a buyer for standing timber. From dobbsequipment.com, read 17 October 2026.

Pollard Lumber Company is listed in the Georgia Forestry Commission's Wood-Using Industries directory as a sawmill-softwood facility in Columbia County, taking yellow pine. The Commission publishes the directory; it does not rate or endorse the facilities in it.

Ralph Julius Dozier Family Partnership is on the Georgia Master Timber Harvester active roster, at Appling, Columbia County. Georgia Master Timber Harvester is a training programme; the roster records a current designation and is not a rating, a licence, or an endorsement by anyone. The roster publishes no phone number, so there is none here.

Big Dog Stump & Tree, Inc. is a tree service in Martinez, Georgia, at 237 Settlement Rd. It is listed under independent loggers. Its main trade is tree care, and its other trade is land clearing and site work. The business does tree removal, tree pruning, stump grinding and stump removal, land clearing, storm damage cleanup, rolloff dumpster rental, and crane services. It also sells mulch and playground mulch. It serves Augusta, GA and beyond, inside a 60 mile radius of the CSRA, and its county on the register is Columbia County. Owner Brian Ligon started the business at age 22 with a truck and a stump grinder. Its listed credentials are ISA Certified Arborist, Georgia Master Timber Harvester, and IPEMA Certified. The owner's motto is "Don’t go to a job without the proper equipment." The business offers 24 hour emergency service and free estimates. It suits a landowner near Martinez or Augusta who needs tree removal, land clearing, or stump work from a business that holds the Georgia Master Timber Harvester certification. From bigdogtree.com, read 17 October 2026.

Tucker sawmill & woodworks is a mill in Columbia County, Georgia. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.