Central Kentucky Forest Management, Inc.
About Central Kentucky Forest Management, Inc.
Central Kentucky Forest Management, Inc. is a forestry consulting business in Danville, Kentucky. They handle timber appraisals, forest management planning, and timber sale administration for private forest landowners, and they've been doing it since 1999. Their work covers the full range of what a landowner might need before, during, or after a timber sale: writing forest management plans, running GIS and mapping, doing assessments and consultations, and planning silvicultural systems. If timber's ever been taken off your land without notice, they also do timber trespass work, including appraisals of stolen timber and expert witness testimony. They describe their role in a sale plainly: they "represent you, the landowner, to protect your interests and ensure your timber is marked, sold, and harvested professionally and sustainably." The business lists Boyle County as where it works, with the broader claim of serving Kentucky forest owners generally. The founder, Chris Will, is a certified forester (ACF) and also works as an NRCS Technical Service Provider, which matters if you want a plan that meets NRCS standards. No species or minimum tract size are named anywhere in what they publish, so there's nothing to go on there. This fits a landowner in or near Boyle County who wants someone handling the whole sale process on their behalf, from appraisal through harvest, rather than just getting a one-time number on their timber. From ckfm.net, 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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