JD Forest Management, LLC
About JD Forest Management, LLC
JD Forest Management, LLC is a forestry consulting outfit based in Priest River, Idaho. They also log timber themselves and buy timber, so they can walk you through the whole thing from a landowner's standpoint, not just hand you off to someone else partway through. Their foresters hold four-year degrees and will put together a harvest plan built around your property, then run the operation, logging, hauling, and marketing logs to sawmills. They work with western larch, white pine, ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir, western redcedar, grand fir, cedar, and hemlock. Beyond harvests, they do timber cruising, estate timber appraisals, forest plans (including the NRCS Technical Service Provider work), reforestation, tree planting, seedling sales, and burn reforestation. A sale or job starts with a site visit where a forester talks through your goals, then they lay out the steps and pricing before anything moves forward. They use written contracts drafted by attorneys and say they are insured and require proof of insurance from contractors. They state a minimum of 10 acres, saying "no project is too big" and that they can handle a property "no matter if it's 10 acres or 1,000 acres." They've been managing private forestland in the area for over 40 years and currently manage more than 20,000 acres, working across Bonner County and a long list of other northern Idaho, eastern Washington, and northwestern Montana counties. This fits a landowner with at least 10 acres who wants one forestry outfit to handle planning, logging, and paperwork together, rather than lining up separate people for each piece. From jdforestmanagement.com, read 4 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.
Everything they're registered for
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