Selling Timber in Adams County, MS
Quick answer
There are 12 timber businesses listed for Adams County, Mississippi: 8 consulting foresters and 4 timber buyers, loggers and mills. 10 of them have offices in the county. The rest are registered to work here and travel in, and every listing shows how far its office is from the county seat.
Timber prices for Adams County
No county publishes its own timber prices. These are Mississippi's published stumpage prices, what landowners are paid for standing timber, and the best public guide to what timber in Adams County is bringing. Your own timber can sell above or below them.
| Pine sawtimber | $22.03 per ton |
| Pine chip-n-saw | $12.52 per ton |
| Pine pulpwood | $4.77 per ton |
| Oak sawtimber | $57.35 per ton |
| Mixed hardwood sawtimber | $39.81 per ton |
| Hardwood pulpwood | $9.02 per ton |
Source: Mississippi State University Extension, Q2 2026. All Mississippi timber prices
Before you talk to anyone, find out what your timber is worth
Most landowners in Adams County have no idea what their standing timber is worth, which is exactly the position a buyer wants you in. Four questions gets you a ballpark range before the first offer lands.
Consulting Foresters in Adams County (6)
These 6 foresters have offices right here in Adams County. A forester works for you, not for the buyer.
Good Hope Inc. is a timber buyer based in Natchez, Mississippi, that also does logging and forestry consulting. Its main office is at 107 Col. John Pitchford Pkwy, and its listed county is Adams. It buys land and timber rights and manages land and timber across more than 150 counties in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Its homepage puts it this way: "For all your timber needs." It works with both pine and hardwood. Its listed services are land and timber purchasing and management, pine and hardwood plantation thinning, in-woods chipping, mill and woodyard cleanup, woodyard storage, island barging, and timber transportation. The firm falls and moves about 3 million tons of timber a year across the three states. Its foresters are registered in each state where they work and certified with the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. The team's combined years in the trade come to over 100. A job starts with a free site visit, where a forester looks at what the land and timber can do. It suits a landowner with pine or hardwood in Mississippi, Arkansas, or Louisiana who wants one firm to buy, cut, and haul the timber and wants a forester out to the property for free first. From g-hope.com, read 3 October 2026.
J M Jones Lumber Co Inc is a hardwood sawmill in Natchez, Mississippi, in Adams County. The Jones family has owned the business since J. M. Jones founded it in 1911, and the mill on the Mississippi River in Natchez has operated since 1936. It cuts its own logs and sells lumber to domestic and international markets. Alongside the mill, its forestry staff does timber cruises, land and timber appraisals, boundary line maintenance, hunting leases, government assistance programs, tree planting, TSI work, timber thinning, managing logging crews, and WRP and CRP compliance. The work centers on hardwood timber. The company manages more than 100,000 acres under long term contracts in Southwest Mississippi and Central and Southeast Louisiana, and it has grown hardwood there for over 60 years. Three full time graduate foresters are on staff, all Board Certified Registered Mississippi Foresters, and together they have more than 100 years of timber management experience. Its lumber inspectors are NHLA certified. Boards are graded after kiln drying and sold on net tally, and logs come from the company's own management tracts. It suits a landowner with hardwood timber in southwest Mississippi who wants forestry help from the same people who run the mill. From jmjoneslumber.com, read 17 October 2026.
Kenan "Shot" S Gwin is a sole practitioner, listed on the Mississippi Board of Registration for Foresters' roster of consulting foresters in Natchez, in Adams County. A consulting forester works for the landowner rather than the buyer. The Board licenses foresters and publishes the roster; appearing on it is not an endorsement. Registration number 01241.
Kirby D Allen is a sole practitioner, listed on the Mississippi Board of Registration for Foresters' roster of consulting foresters in Natchez, in Adams County. A consulting forester works for the landowner rather than the buyer. The Board licenses foresters and publishes the roster; appearing on it is not an endorsement. Registration number 00721.
Thomas W Middleton is a sole practitioner, listed on the Mississippi Board of Registration for Foresters' roster of consulting foresters in Natchez, in Adams County. A consulting forester works for the landowner rather than the buyer. The Board licenses foresters and publishes the roster; appearing on it is not an endorsement. Registration number 00897.
William Harold Brown is a sole practitioner, listed on the Mississippi Board of Registration for Foresters' roster of consulting foresters in Natchez, in Adams County. A consulting forester works for the landowner rather than the buyer. The Board licenses foresters and publishes the roster; appearing on it is not an endorsement. Registration number 00444.
Consulting Foresters in Neighboring Counties (2)
Listed on the Mississippi Board of Registration for Foresters consulting forester roster, the Forest Products Network (SREF) mill directory and the Mississippi Forestry Commission forestry vendors directory as working Adams County, from an office elsewhere. Closest first.
Gill Forestry Solutions LLC is a forestry consulting firm based in Saucier, Mississippi. It works with private landowners who want to get more from their land, whether the goal is timber income, wildlife habitat, or long-term forest care. The founder, Mozart Gill, is a Registered Forester (#2645) with over a decade in the forest industry. The listed credentials include Certified Prescribed Burn Manager (#25143), Professional Logging Manager, Certified Tree Farm Inspector, and a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from Mississippi State University. The firm's work is mostly advice. It offers timber sales and marketing, timber cruising and appraisals, forest management plans, reforestation planning, prescribed burn management, boundary line services, wildlife habitat improvement, and landowner consultation. Its approach is to evaluate the condition of your forest, assess what it has to offer, and build recommendations around your goals. It also offers a "no-obligation consultation service." The business names Saucier, Hattiesburg and Wiggins as its home area and says it serves private landowners throughout Mississippi. It suits a landowner who wants an independent forester's view before deciding on a timber sale, a burn, or a habitat project. From gillforestrysolutions.com, read 18 October 2026.
Landmark Forestry and Realty LLC appears in the Mississippi Forestry Commission's Forestry Vendors directory in Adams County. The directory lists it for timber & land services, timber inventory & contract cruising and timber sales / appraisals. The Commission compiles that directory from vendors who submit their own information to it; a listing is not an endorsement.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills in Adams County (4)
These 4 are based in Adams County. Being close matters: hauling is one of the biggest costs taken out of your check.
Byrne Sawmill Services is a mill in Natchez, Mississippi. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Donald Roberts Logging is a logging contractor in Natchez, Mississippi. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Jones Lumber Co., Inc is a hardwood sawmill based in Natchez, Mississippi. It runs 12 mills across five sites in the state, at Bay Springs, Gloster, Hazlehurst, Natchez and Sandy Hook. The Natchez mill is in Adams County. The business handles everything from harvesting timber to shipping, and it has been in the work for over 60 years. Its hardwood work includes custom surfacing with an on-site planer, width-sorting to exact specs, and export prep with container loading. The species it handles are Ash, Cottonwood, Hackberry, Pecan, Poplar, Red Oak, Sap Gum, Sycamore and White Oak. It is a member of the NHLA KD program and of SWHMC, and it keeps NHLA certified inspectors on staff. Jones Lumber Co., Inc says its work is "the industry’s highest standard of hardwood quality," and the mills are set up to meet export rules for the European Union. Most of its sales go to distributors and manufacturers, with customers in Asia, Europe and Mexico. A landowner with hardwood timber in the species above, who is comfortable selling to a large multi-site mill that supplies those buyers, is the kind of owner this business suits. From joneslumberco.com, read 17 October 2026.
Woodhaven Corporation is a logging contractor in Natchez, Mississippi. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Questions landowners ask
How many timber buyers and foresters serve Adams County?
12 businesses are listed for Adams County: 8 consulting foresters and 4 buyers, loggers and mills. 10 of them have offices in the county.
How much is my timber worth in Adams County?
Nobody can tell you what your timber is worth without walking it. Value depends on the species, the size and grade of the trees, how thickly they stand, the ground conditions and how easily a logger can reach them. Mississippi State University Extension Service publishes the quarterly Mississippi Timber Price Report, state-wide average stumpage in $/ton, which tells you what the market is doing, not what your tract holds. Anyone who quotes you a figure without seeing the land is guessing, and a guess in that direction is rarely in your favour.
What stumpage value means →Do I need a forestry consultant to sell timber in Adams County?
You do not have to use one. A consulting forester works for you rather than the buyer, marks the timber, runs a sealed-bid sale and typically charges a percentage of the sale. Research from several state extension services has found that timber sold through a consultant often returns enough more to cover the fee, though results vary by tract and by market. The decision usually turns on the size of the sale and whether you have sold timber before.
Do I need a forestry consultant? →Do I need a permit to cut timber in Mississippi?
Mississippi has no statewide permit and no notification to harvest timber on your own land — the article of the state code that once regulated forest harvesting was repealed in 2017, and the Forestry Commission's own step-by-step harvest guidance has no permit or notice step in it. Best Management Practices are published by the Forestry Commission and the state calls their use voluntary, but voluntary is not the same as unenforceable: Mississippi law makes it unlawful to cause pollution of state waters, the Department of Environmental Quality investigates and enforces against harvests that do, and the federal Clean Water Act exemption for forest roads and site preparation depends on following the mandatory practices. Counties have less room here than in Georgia or Alabama — since 16 March 2018 no Mississippi county or municipality may adopt an ordinance restricting forestry activity on agricultural land — but ordinances already in place before that date still stand, so check with your county before work starts. One more thing worth knowing: if someone cuts your trees without your consent, Mississippi sets the damages at double the fair market value of the timber plus the cost of replanting, and an honest mistake is not a defence.
Permit rules in Mississippi →What is timber worth in Adams County?
No price series is published for Adams County on its own. Mississippi's latest published stumpage figures (Mississippi State University Extension, Q2 2026) put oak sawtimber at $57.35 per ton. What your own timber brings depends on the species, the size and amount of it, and how far it is from a mill. A timber cruise by a forester settles it.
Forester listings for Adams County come from the Mississippi Board of Registration for Foresters consulting forester roster, the Forest Products Network (SREF) mill directory and the Mississippi Forestry Commission forestry vendors directory, revised 22-Sep-26. The register is updated quarterly.