SOUTHERN MAINE FORESTRY SERVICES
About SOUTHERN MAINE FORESTRY SERVICES
Southern Maine Forestry Services is a forestry consulting business based in Turner, Maine, with an office in North Windham. They say their goal is "maximizing short and long-term income for our clients" while relieving them of the often complex tasks tied to a timber sale. They cover the full run of a timber sale: pre-harvest woodlot marking, volume tallies, logger contracting and negotiation, logger monitoring and supervision, timber utilization, marketing and mill negotiation, and record-keeping and reporting. On the consulting side they do timber cruises and woodlot assessments, forest management plans, timber purchase and sale appraisals, tree growth tax planning, timber tax and depletion appraisals, forest mapping, investment counsel, and timber trespass opinions. They also take on land management jobs such as planting, pruning, marking, pre-commercial thinning, and boundary maintenance. When a sale goes to bid, timber is sold either lump sum or by per MBF and ton, bidders are required to post a bond or deposit before starting work, and payment on a lump sum bid is due at signing or within ten days of accepting the bid. Rene D. Noel, Jr. is the forester who signs off on these sales. They say they contract only with "very high quality loggers with proven track records" and that they are "stickler's for detail when preparing a client's woodlot for sale," marking trees and laying out skid trails to limit damage to what's left standing. They describe themselves as having been in business for a long time. This suits a landowner who wants one party to run the whole process, from marking the trees to picking the logger to handling the paperwork and the check. From someforest.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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