Greenwood Forestry Consulting
About Greenwood Forestry Consulting
Greenwood Forestry Consulting is a forestry consulting business based in Winnebago, Illinois, run by Michael Woolery. He started Greenwood Forestry in 2005 and holds credentials as a TSP with the USDA, which lets him prepare plans for NRCS programs like EQIP. The work covers land management planning, timber sales and assessments, thinning, and tree planting. He also handles native seeding for pollinator habitat, food plot planning and installation, and planting prairie species. Plans are often prepared so landowners can enroll in state forestry or natural resource programs through the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. He serves northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, with Winnebago County named as an area served. On the timber sales side, he lists current sales as they come up, such as a sale in Putnam County, Illinois, with an Invitation to Bid available for interested buyers. The site invites landowners to "find out how we can help improve your property," and notes that beyond the woods, "native pasture is something that we can help you accomplish." This fits a landowner in northern Illinois or southern Wisconsin who wants help with both a timber sale and the paperwork for a state or federal land program, not just a straight timber harvest. From greenwoodforestry.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.
Everything they're registered for
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