Timber Buyers & Forestry Professionals in Big Falls, MN

Bois Forte Forestry is a forestry department of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, based in Nett Lake, near Orr, Minnesota, in Koochiching County. It is not a company that buys or sells timber for landowners. It is the tribe's own forestry program, managing forested tribal and allotment lands within the boundary of the Bois Forte reservation. The work it does includes forest stand development after a harvest or disturbance, such as soil scarification to help pine regenerate, aerial seeding, or brush removal so seedlings can compete. It keeps a forest inventory and maps using what it calls "state of the art inventory equipment," watches for forest pests like emerald ash borer and gypsy moth, and administers timber sales on tribal and allotment land so that "loggers harvest in a desirable and sustainable manner." It also does wildlife habitat work, such as leaving cedar stands as winter deer yards, and handles fire prevention and suppression around the Nett Lake area, including brush removal, burn permits, and equipped vehicles for fire response. Its timber sales serve tribal and allotment landowners on Bois Forte lands, and the benefits it describes go to the tribal government and allottees, not to the general public selling private timber. There is no stated minimum acreage, and no job size to infer one from, since its timber sales are tied to specific tribal and allotment parcels rather than open jobs taken on for any landowner. This listing suits someone trying to understand what the Bois Forte forestry department does on reservation land, not a private landowner in Koochiching County looking for a buyer, logger, or consultant for their own acreage. From boisforte.com, read 8 October 2026.

Holzfaller LLC is a forestry consulting business based in Williams, Minnesota, working timberland across the state and serving Koochiching County. They handle the full range of forestry work: stewardship plans, forest inventory, timber appraisal, reforestation, timber stand improvement, food plot work, land assessment, and timber harvesting itself. They also buy timber and do land buying. On the harvest side, they put together a harvest plan with you, send a Timber Sale Bid Invitation out to a list of potential bidders, and once a bid is accepted they draw up a contract, hold a pre-harvest meeting with the loggers, and check in on the site while work is underway. Payment is tracked either through a load ticket system at the mill or, on more uniform stands, by appraised volume. They mention working with dwarf mistletoe, larch beetle, diplodia, buckthorn, and Emerald Ash Borer in ash stands as forest health issues on Minnesota land. For a Stewardship Plan, they say a property should be "at least 20 acres of forested land." That's the number to know if your woods are on the smaller side. This fits a landowner who wants one outfit to walk the whole process, from a stewardship plan and health issues like EAB, through to getting bids out on an actual harvest. From holzfaller.com, read 8 October 2026.