Eric W Entrekin
About Eric W Entrekin
Eric W Entrekin, doing business as Southeast Forestlands, LLC, is a consulting forestry firm based in Meridian, Mississippi. It serves private landowners across Mississippi and western Alabama, and it names Lauderdale, Jones, Clarke, Jasper, Newton and Neshoba counties for its timber sale work. Their own words put it plainly: "never the mill." The firm does not buy timber or log it. The work covers forestry consulting, timber sales, appraisals, management plans, timber stand improvement, reforestation, prescribed burning, herbicide application, aerial photography, USDA forestry programs, tree farm certification and land sales. The species named are pine sawtimber and hardwood grade. A sale runs as a sealed-bid process. The timber is put in front of qualified buyers, the firm handles a written contract, and it stays involved through the harvest. The smallest job shown on their pages is an approximately 40-acre timber sale in Kemper County, so that is the smallest tract they have shown working on. They describe three decades of cruises, sales and management plans. Eric Entrekin holds Registered Forester MS/AL #2175, is an MS Real Estate Sales Agent, is an FAA UAS Remote Pilot (#3930408), and is a USDA Technical Service Provider (TSP #20-23350). This suits a landowner with pine or hardwood timber in these counties who wants a forester on their side of the table before any sale is signed. From southeastforestlands.com, read 17 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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