Big Creek Forestry and Wildlife Consulting, LLC
About Big Creek Forestry and Wildlife Consulting, LLC
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.
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.
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