D & M Forestry
About D & M Forestry
D & M Forestry is a consulting forestry business based in Winchester, Kentucky, run by Dick Brantigan. He works as a professional forester and licensed professional logging engineer with over 30 years in the field, and serves Clark County as well as the rest of Kentucky and its border states. The work covers the whole arc of a timber sale: cruising, grading, and appraising standing timber, marking the sale boundary and the trees themselves, advertising the sale, writing up the contract, holding the bid opening, and then inspecting the harvest to make sure the logger does right by the land. He also handles forest engineering jobs like woods road design, directional felling help, and wire rope splicing, plus timber trespass and damage appraisals and tax basis work. Species named include Stave White Oak, Chestnut Oak, Red Oak, and Yellow Poplar. Sale services are usually done on commission, running 6% to 12% of the gross sale price, with the exact figure depending on what's asked for. His credentials include being a level four certified timber cutter and a continuing education instructor for the Kentucky Master Logging Program. His own words sum up the approach: "Practicing good forestry to provide today's products and healthy trees tomorrow." He also points to over 30 years of "hands on" experience planning and operating logging equipment. This fits a landowner in or near Clark County who wants someone to run the whole timber sale process, from marking trees to collecting bids, rather than handling it alone. From dmforest.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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