RL Taylor Forestry
About RL Taylor Forestry
RL Taylor Forestry Consulting is run by Ron Taylor out of Rineville, Kentucky, and serves Rowan County. It's a one-person consulting forestry practice, not a logging crew, so the work is advice, planning, and sale administration rather than cutting trees yourself. The services cover timber cruising and appraisal, woodland management planning, timber sale administration from layout and marking through advertisement and contract closure, timber trespass resolution, carbon credit inventories, theft and damage appraisals, expert witness testimony, and help with forestland and wood certification. Ron Taylor has been a consulting forester since 2008, with much longer work history before that in forestry, and has worked across eight states. He is a Certified Forester with the Society of American Foresters, an American Tree Farm Inspector, and a cooperating forester with the Center of Forest & Wood Certification. On how a sale runs, the business leans on "Competitive Bidding" to get more than one buyer looking at your timber, and stresses that "Landowner Objectives are Important," whether that means a fair price, a healthy woodlot for the future, or trees left standing for wildlife. He also talks through access, roads, and stream protection as things that affect what your timber is worth before a sale ever goes out for bid. This fits a landowner in or near Rowan County who wants someone to manage the sale process end to end, rather than just mark trees and walk away, and who wants a consultant with decades of hands-on forestry background behind the advice. From rltaylorforestry.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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