Complete Forestry Services
About Complete Forestry Services
Complete Forestry Services is a forestry consulting firm with its office in Auburn, Alabama. Its listing gives the business as based in Columbus, Georgia, and names Muscogee as its county. Tommy McDonald opened the firm in the spring of 1997 to help private landowners and investors manage their timber and other natural resources. His son Jon McDonald joined in 2008. The firm handles forest management plans, GPS mapping, plot sampling and timber appraisals, along with timber sales, final harvests, thinning, marking timber before a thinning, logging inspections, and site prep and replanting. The work covers both pine and hardwood. On a sale, they can help you choose between a lump sum and a per unit price. During the harvest they visit the logging operation to make sure the contract terms are being kept. In their words, they can "look out for the landowner's best interest." Tommy is a registered forester in Georgia and Alabama and a Certified Prescribed Burn Manager in both states. Jon is a registered forester in Alabama and a Certified Prescribed Burn Manager in Alabama. Both are members of The Alabama Prescribed Fire Council, and Tommy is a member of the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Advisory Council. This suits a landowner who wants a written management plan first and a forester to run the sale and watch the logging. From completeforestry.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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