Matre Forestry Consulting Inc
About Matre Forestry Consulting Inc
Matre Forestry Consulting Inc is a forestry and land business in Albany, Georgia. Mike Matre set it up in 1999 in his hometown. It handles timber sales, timber marking, cruising and appraisals, forest stewardship and timber management plans, site preparation and reforestation, prescribed burning, and hunting lease management. Land sales and purchases go through Saunders Real Estate, where Mike is a Senior Advisor and Associate Broker. On timber, the firm posts some of its sales as "sealed bid lump sum timber sales." It does not publicly advertise per ton sales, so a landowner who wants that route should call Mike directly. For a sale on a specific tract, he can prepare a timber market analysis and a consulting forester's price opinion. Its land sales run through exclusive listings, sealed bids, and live and online auctions. Mike is an Accredited Land Consultant and a member of the Association of Consulting Foresters, and the business lists a Certified Prescribed Burner certification. The work covers Southwest Georgia, Central Georgia, Southeast Alabama, and the entire state of Georgia, with counties such as Dougherty, Calhoun, Lee, and Tift named. The smallest job shown is a 52-acre sealed bid land sale in Calhoun County. That is the basis for the minimum tract size here, not a stated policy. This firm suits a Southwest Georgia landowner who wants one contact for both the timber and the land sale, and who would like a written price opinion before going to market. From matreforestry.com, read 17 October 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.
Counties covered
Matre Forestry Consulting Inc
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