Inland Forest Management
About Inland Forest Management
Inland Forest Management is a consulting forestry outfit based in Sandpoint, Idaho, working in Bonner County. They've been doing this since 1984. They don't log your trees or own a sawmill, "we are not affiliated with a sawmill or logging company," so their job is to work for you, not for a buyer on the other end of the sale. The work covers the whole range of what a timber owner might need: forest management plans, timber valuation, timber harvest oversight, timber cruising and appraisals, forest tax planning, reforestation, forest stand thinning, wildlife habitat work, conservation easements, absentee landowner representation, and insect and disease checks. They handle white pine, western larch, ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir, grand fir, and western white pine. If you're not sure what a healthy stand should look like or what your timber is worth, this is the kind of outfit that walks the ground with you, writes a plan, and then helps carry a harvest or a sale through from start to finish. They describe their role plainly: "our first obligation is to them," meaning the landowner, not a mill or a logger looking for board feet. That's worth knowing if you've never sold timber before and don't want to feel like the last person in the room to find out what your trees were worth. This fits a landowner in or near Bonner County who wants a forester in their corner for the planning and the paperwork, not just someone to mark trees and leave. From inlandforest.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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