VanOss Forestry Services
About VanOss Forestry Services
VanOss Forestry Services is a forestry consulting firm in Crystal Falls, Michigan, run by forester Brock VanOss. They work with landowners on management plan development, timber sale marking, timber sale marketing, timber sale administration, and timber appraisals. They've been serving Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Northeastern Wisconsin since 2002. If you're thinking about a timber sale, this is the kind of outfit that handles the whole process: setting up the sale, marking the timber, marketing it to buyers, and overseeing the harvest through to the end. Brock VanOss has worked for a logging company himself, so he knows how buyers mark and price wood, and he's a State of Michigan Certified Timber Marker and Timber Cruiser. He's also recognized by the Michigan DNR as a certified plan writer for the Qualified Forest Program and Commercial Forest Act tax programs, which matters if you're trying to get a property tax break on your land. For the Qualified Forest Program specifically, they state you need at least 20 contiguous acres to qualify, along with a management plan written by a certified plan writer. No species or general minimum tract size is mentioned beyond that. On the selling side, they describe it plainly: your timber is "too valuable an asset to not properly market when you are ready to sell," and the goal is a sale "implemented correctly from start to finish." This fits a landowner in Iron County or nearby who wants someone who already knows the logging side of the business, not just the paperwork side, and who may also want help with the tax-program route for their land. From vanossforestry.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.
Everything they're registered for
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