Cox Forestry Consulting
About Cox Forestry Consulting
Cox Forestry Consulting is a one-person forestry consulting business run by David M Cox, out of Louisville, Kentucky. David works as an independent forester, and he says his priority is "to help forest landowners meet their goals through sound forest management techniques." He serves Jefferson County, with his broader service area given as Kentucky and Indiana. The work covers the full range a landowner might need: timber management plans, timber inventory, timber marking, timber marketing, timber sale administration, timber tax assistance, timber appraisals, property boundary marking and survey and mapping, timber stand improvement, and tree plantings. He also handles timber buying alongside his consulting work. He holds the ACF credential (Association of Consulting Foresters) and has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Forestry from the University of Kentucky. He notes that he works "solely with private landowners" and is not employed by government or by any wood-using industry, which matters if you want someone whose only client is you. His timber sale listings show active and recently sold jobs, including the Galligan Family Farm Timber Sale and the Brown Timber Sale, alongside completed sales like the Whelan and Schaftlein jobs, each run with a posted bid sheet. This fits a Jefferson County landowner who wants one forester handling everything from the first walk of the woods through the sale itself, and who wants someone who says plainly he answers to the landowner and no one else. From coxforestry.com, 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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