Selling Timber in Paulding County, GA
Quick answer
There is 1 timber business listed for Paulding County, Georgia: 1 consulting forester. 1 of them has an office 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 Paulding County
No county publishes its own timber prices. These are Georgia's published stumpage prices, what landowners are paid for standing timber, and the best public guide to what timber in Paulding County is bringing. Your own timber can sell above or below them.
| Pine sawtimber | $22–$28 per ton |
| Pine chip-n-saw | $17–$23.5 per ton |
| Pine pulpwood | $6–$9.5 per ton |
| Mixed hardwood sawtimber | $26–$32 per ton |
| Hardwood pulpwood | $6–$8 per ton |
Source: University of Georgia Extension, Q3 2025. All Georgia timber prices
Before you talk to anyone, find out what your timber is worth
Most landowners in Paulding 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.
Consulting Foresters in Paulding County (1)
This forester has an office right here in Paulding County. A forester works for you, not for the buyer.
Valley Wood Inc is a timber buyer based in Dallas, Georgia, with its office in Columbus. It also does consulting forestry and logging. It works across Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina, and Paulding County is named as its service county. The main job is buying standing timber, and it offers "top market value" for it. It has woodyards in Dallas, Coosa and Lafayette, and post mills in Summerville and Montrose. The timber it buys goes to paper pulp, chipwood and wood chips. Its other work includes timber cruises, timber appraisals, forest management plans, timber stand improvement, site prep, road construction, controlled burning, wildlife habitat work, logging and timber hauling. The usual run is that you talk through which harvest suits you, they set a time to cut, and they replant after the final harvest. The stated minimum is 20 acres. The business has been managing timberland since 1955. It is affiliated with the Georgia Forestry Commission, the American Tree Farm System, the Georgia Master Timber Harvester program, and state forestry associations in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina, among others. It suits a landowner with at least 20 acres who wants one firm to appraise the timber, cut it and replant. From valleywoodforestry.com, read 17 October 2026.
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Questions landowners ask
How many timber buyers and foresters serve Paulding County?
1 business is listed for Paulding County: 1 consulting forester and 0 buyers, loggers and mills. 1 of them has an office in the county.
How much is my timber worth in Paulding 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. University of Georgia Extension publishes an annual timber situation and outlook report with recent quarterly figures, 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 Paulding 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 Georgia?
Georgia has no statewide permit for cutting timber on your own land, and state law forbids a county to require one or to charge a fee for a timber harvest notification. What a county may require is the notification itself: where its ordinance calls for one, the harvester files it before entering the property if possible and no later than 24 hours after entering, and the county may ask for a bond of up to $5,000 against damage to its roads. Not every county has an ordinance, so check with yours before work starts. Georgia's Best Management Practices are not a permit programme, but following them is how a harvest stays clear of the water-quality law that is enforceable.
Permit rules in Georgia →What is timber worth in Paulding County?
No price series is published for Paulding County on its own. Georgia's latest published stumpage figures (University of Georgia Extension, Q3 2025) put mixed hardwood sawtimber at $26–$32 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.