Gibbons Forestry Services
About Gibbons Forestry Services
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.
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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