Thompson Forestry

About Thompson Forestry

Thompson Forestry is a consulting forestry business run by Michael Thompson out of Lexington, Kentucky, serving Fayette County. This isn't a logging outfit, it's someone who works for you as the landowner before any logger or mill gets involved. The work covers timber sales, timber appraisals, management plans, and timber stand improvement. For a sale, he measures and grades your timber, markets it to loggers, sawmills, and veneer mills, writes up the timber sale contract, and does logging inspections. Trees get handled one of two ways: a marked sale, where trees are painted at head high and on the stump, or a cruise sale, based on a stump diameter inventory. Either way the idea is that only what was counted gets cut. He describes the contracts as "in depth and seller friendly," which matters if you've never sold timber before and don't want to get outmaneuvered on paper. He holds a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Kentucky (2007), an A.S. in Science from BCTCS (2004), belongs to the Society of American Foresters, and carries the ACF certification. He's been doing this consulting work for over 11 years. This suits a landowner in Fayette County who wants a forester in their corner first, someone to appraise, write the contract, and inspect the logging, rather than going straight to a buyer. From thompsonforestry.com, read 4 October 2026.

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