Timber Buyers & Forestry Professionals in Elizabethtown, IL

Gibbons Forestry Services, Inc. is a forestry consulting company based in Elizabethtown, Illinois. They work with landowners to manage their property for better timber, wildlife, looks, and enjoyment, and they say they have 21 years experience in the field. Their work covers timber sales and marketing, forest management plans, forest stand improvement, forestry appraisals, invasive species control, and tree plantation thinning. They mention oak trees specifically, including help with plantations where faster growing volunteer trees can crowd out young oaks. For a timber sale, trees are marked with paint, board footage is worked out by species, and a prospectus goes out as an "Invitation to Bid on Standing Timber" to at least 50 sawmills and timber buyers. After bids open, a contract is drawn up between landowner and buyer, payment is made before any cutting starts, a performance bond is held, and Gibbons oversees the logging to make sure only marked trees come down and cleanup gets done. They describe themselves as working only for the landowner, saying "we only represent landowners and we do not attempt to purchase any timber," which keeps them out of the business of buying what they are valuing. They serve Southern Illinois and Western Kentucky, including Hardin County. This fits a landowner who wants someone to run the whole sale process on their behalf, from marking trees through the bidding to watching the logging, rather than handling the marketing and contract themselves. From gibbonsforestry.com, read 10 October 2026.