Selling Timber in Warren County, MS
Quick answer
There are 12 timber businesses listed for Warren County, Mississippi: 8 consulting foresters and 4 timber buyers, loggers and mills. 8 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 Warren 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 Warren 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 Warren 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 Warren County (4)
These 4 foresters have offices right here in Warren County. A forester works for you, not for the buyer.
H. Dale Oliver is a sole practitioner, listed on the Mississippi Board of Registration for Foresters' roster of consulting foresters in Vicksburg, in Warren 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 00332.
Jeremy E Stokes is a sole practitioner, listed on the Mississippi Board of Registration for Foresters' roster of consulting foresters in Vicksburg, in Warren 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 02434.
Jr., Willie Horace Tomlinson is a sole practitioner, listed on the Mississippi Board of Registration for Foresters' roster of consulting foresters in Vicksburg, in Warren 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 01111.
Thomas G Walker is a sole practitioner, listed on the Mississippi Board of Registration for Foresters' roster of consulting foresters in Vicksburg, in Warren 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 01473.
Consulting Foresters in Neighboring Counties (4)
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 Warren County, from an office elsewhere. Closest first.
Arel Dean Simpson is a sole practitioner, listed on the Mississippi Board of Registration for Foresters' roster of consulting foresters in Warren 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 00998.
Blanton Land Solutions LLC is a land clearing and tree care business in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and it is listed as a forestry consultant. Its pages describe the work as turning neglected or hard-to-reach land into usable ground. It serves Central Mississippi and covers these counties: Attala, Hinds, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Madison, Scott, Sharkey, Warren and Yazoo. Most of the work is clearing and mulching. The services listed include forestry mulching, boundary clearing, fire lanes and firebreaks, brush and vine removal, view clearing up to 15 feet, and small tree removal up to 14 inches in diameter. They also offer dead tree removal, stump grinding, overhead fence maintenance, storm damage cleanup, and delivery of limestone, gravel, sand and dirt. Other listed services include forest management, pre-commercial thinning, mid-rotation management, and site preparation with fire management. The business offers a free estimate and invites you to book a property walkthrough. One of its headings reads "Done Right, First Time," and it says it leaves every site looking better than it found it. It suits a landowner who needs brush, boundary lines, fire lanes or storm cleanup handled, more than one who wants standing timber sold. From blantonlandsolutions.com, read 18 October 2026.
Edward F Travis is a forestry consulting and land brokerage business based in Mobile. It works under the name Travis Timberlands and describes its work as "We help you manage and find timberland." Ed Travis started in real estate appraisal in 1971. The business covers timber and land markets in numerous counties in southwest Alabama and southeastern Mississippi, and Warren is one of the counties it serves. The work runs from timber sales and timber sale management to timber inventory, forest appraisal and forest investment analysis. It also covers tax basis establishment and reconstruction, timber cost basis studies, prescribed burning, chemical applications, GIS and GPS maps and forest litigation support. For land buyers and sellers, it lists, sells and finds rural land. It advises owners on how to market a property by examining its timber, its economics, and its wildlife and environmental considerations, and it passes access, easement and tax details on to the owner's legal and accounting advisers. Ed Travis is a Registered Forester in Alabama and Mississippi and an Alabama real estate broker. He is a retired Alabama certified general appraiser and a past chairman of the Alabama Chapter of the Association of Consulting Foresters of America. He has valued large timberland holdings from Virginia to Texas, and the business puts its approach this way: "See the forest beyond the trees." This business suits owners who want one adviser to look at the timber, the land and the sale together, especially owners of both small and large tracts. From travistimberlands.com, read 17 October 2026.
Kirk Austin Watkins is a sole practitioner, listed on the Mississippi Board of Registration for Foresters' roster of consulting foresters in Clinton, in Warren 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 02783.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills in Warren County (4)
These 4 are based in Warren County. Being close matters: hauling is one of the biggest costs taken out of your check.
Big River Forest Products is a family-owned lumber company with a mill in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Its headquarters is in Jackson, and it runs two lumber mills in Mississippi, one in Vicksburg and one in Gloster. The company has decades of industry experience. Its work is making Southern Yellow Pine lumber, mainly dimensional lumber and timbers, which it sells to builders, distributors and treated-wood buyers. The Vicksburg mill sits on over 150 acres and can produce up to 180MMBF a year. The Gloster mill is in Southwest Mississippi, which the company describes as "one of the richest timber baskets in the United States." The Vicksburg mill is at 1725 N Washington St, and the sales line is 601.326.6402. It suits a landowner who wants to know the pine lumber mills near Vicksburg and what they produce. From bigriverfp.com, read 18 October 2026.
International Paper Co. appears in the Forest Products Network mill directory in Vicksburg, in Warren County. It is recorded as a pulp & paper operation. The directory lists it as taking hardwood and softwood. The directory is compiled from mill records; a listing is not an endorsement.
Vicksburg Forest Products appears in the Forest Products Network mill directory in Vicksburg, in Warren County. It is recorded as a sawmill operation. The directory lists it as taking softwood. The directory is compiled from mill records; a listing is not an endorsement.
West Coast Lumber Industries is a mill in Vicksburg, 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 Warren County?
12 businesses are listed for Warren County: 8 consulting foresters and 4 buyers, loggers and mills. 8 of them have offices in the county.
How much is my timber worth in Warren 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 Warren 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 Warren County?
No price series is published for Warren 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 Warren 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.