RK&K
About RK&K
RK&K is listed in the forestry-consultants category for Baltimore, Maryland, but it isn't a timber business. It's an engineering and planning firm, founded in 1923, offering services like construction management, environmental surveys, transportation design, surveying, and water resources work for cities, counties, and state transportation departments across the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and South Central states. Its own pages describe work like bridge design, tree surveys and arborist services, GIS, and site development, not timber sales, logging, or landowner advice. There's nothing here about buying standing timber, running a timber sale, or advising a landowner on a harvest. No species, no acreage, no sale process, and no forestry credentials turn up, only a Maryland State License tied to its register listing. If you're sitting across the table trying to figure out who will walk your woods and help you sell logs, this isn't that business. RK&K suits public agencies and large institutional clients needing engineering, environmental, or infrastructure work, not a landowner with a few acres of trees to sell. From rkk.com, read 8 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.
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