SILVER MAPLE FORESTRY
About SILVER MAPLE FORESTRY
Silver Maple Forestry is a consulting forestry business based in Appleton, Maine, serving landowners in midcoast Maine, including Knox County. It's "a small, family run business" started in 2023, and it holds a Maine forestry license. The work covers forest management planning, Tree Growth Tax Law assistance, NRCS management plans and cost-share practices, boundary line marking, shoreland zoning guidance, invasive plant plans, and general consulting. For timber sales, Silver Maple Forestry doesn't log the property itself. If a harvest fits the forest and the landowner's goals, it sets up the sale, handles the legal requirements and tree marking, and brings in a logging contractor to do the cutting. It charges hourly for timber sale work rather than taking a cut of the timber income, by the acre for management plans, and by the mile for boundary line marking. One of its principals is a Natural Resources Conservation Service TSP, qualified to write NRCS-funded plans, and the business is certified by the state of Maine to write Woodland Resource Action Plans under the WoodsWISE program. The other principal is a licensed arborist. Notably, "we have no ties to mills or logging companies," so the business says it works solely for the landowner, not for a buyer on the other side of the sale. This fits a midcoast Maine landowner who wants someone to manage the whole process on their behalf, from paperwork and boundary lines to lining up a logger, rather than a company that buys or cuts the timber itself. From silvermapleforestry.com, read 11 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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