TWO TREES FORESTRY
About TWO TREES FORESTRY
Two Trees Forestry is a forestry-consulting business in Portland, Maine, working with landowners in Cumberland County. They describe themselves plainly: "We serve as a landowner's forester, fiduciary, and agent exclusively." Their work covers planning and management, harvesting timber, helping timberland buyers, and managing town forests. They handle logs, pulpwood, firewood, and biomass chips. Most timber sales run as pay-as-cut stumpage agreements, where a logging contractor pays the landowner weekly for what gets delivered to mills, at prices agreed in advance. Fees for their own services are also set up front, generally as a percentage of timber income. Two Trees Forestry was founded in 1984 by Mark Miller and was incorporated in 1995. Harold Burnett joined in 1988 and holds membership with the Maine Board of Licensure of Foresters, serves on the Society of American Foresters' Ethics Committee, belongs to the Association of Consulting Foresters (and formerly chaired its Maine chapter), and works as an inspector for the Maine Tree Farm Committee. There's no stated minimum acreage, but the smallest job described on their pages is a 22-acre harvest, handled for a land trust property. This looks like a fit for a landowner in Cumberland County who wants a forester acting only on their behalf, with the sale structure and fees spelled out before any trees come down. From twotreesforestry.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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