Barneycastle Forestry Services, Inc
About Barneycastle Forestry Services, Inc
Barneycastle Forestry Services, Inc is a tree consulting firm in Snellville, Georgia. Chris Barneycastle started the business in 2002. Its clients include residential, commercial and municipal clients, and the firm works with trees on their property and in the urban forest. The firm does tree appraisals and valuation, tree inspections and evaluations, expert witness testimony, urban tree inventories and forest management plans, and educational workshops. Appraisals follow the Council of Tree & Landscape Appraisers Guide to Plant Appraisal, 9th Edition, and cover trees damaged by storms, vehicles, construction or fire, and trees removed without permission. Inspections look for insect and disease problems, structural faults and decay. Inventories help builders and developers meet the tree preservation ordinances that many counties and cities have. Its county is Gwinnett. Barneycastle holds a Bachelor of Science in Forest Resources from the University of Georgia. He is a certified arborist (SO-2913A) and a registered forester (Georgia #1422), and he is qualified by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources as a consultant for Environmentally Sensitive Property determination. He began his career as an urban forester with the Georgia Forestry Commission in metro Atlanta. He belongs to the International Society of Arboriculture, the Society of American Foresters, the Georgia Tree Council and the Georgia Arborist Association. Inspections end with a report. "A written report is provided" with species, diameter, condition description, risk potential and recommendations. This suits a landowner who needs a tree valued after damage or a dispute, or a builder or city that needs a tree inventory under a preservation ordinance. From barneycastleforestryservices.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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