Bois Forte Forestry
About Bois Forte Forestry
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.
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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Bois Forte Forestry
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