Timber Buyers & Forestry Professionals in Grayling, MI

Metcalfe Forestry CO is a forest management consulting business based in Grayling, Michigan. They work out of two professional forest managers plus subcontractors, serving Crawford County and northern Michigan more broadly. Their work covers management plans, timber inventories, map making, timber harvest boundary location, timber trespass or theft evaluation, timber tax and depletion account preparation, Federal Form T, timber appraisals, post harvest inspections, expert witness testimony, and wildlife, aesthetic, or recreational improvements. A timber sale with them runs through a set process: they meet with you about your goals, inventory the property and write a plan, mark boundaries and trees, put the sale out to bid, collect down payments and security deposits through their escrow account, check on the logger during harvest, and return the deposit once post-harvest cleanup is done and standards are met. They note that "Metcalfe Forestry requires all logging companies that we work with to be fully insured." Their timber tax work covers reporting timber income as capital gain and building a depletion account, separate from the forestry consulting side. Their smallest stated client size is 10 acres, with larger clients running into the thousands of acres. Staff hold the ACF credential, and the business has done contract work, including for the MDNR, Forest Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs, since 1998. This fits a landowner in or near Crawford County with at least 10 acres who wants a forester to run the whole sale process, handle the paperwork end of timber taxes, or testify in a trespass or boundary dispute. From metcalfeforestry.com, read 8 October 2026.