John Girard Guthrie
About John Girard Guthrie
John Girard Guthrie is a forestry consulting and real estate business in Wiggins, Mississippi. It writes forest management plans "tailored especially to your property" and carries them out under long-term management agreements. It also sells, buys and exchanges rural and timberland property. Its listings have included tracts in Forrest, Harrison, Perry, Wayne, Stone and Neshoba counties, and Stone County is the county it names as its service area. The work covers forest inventory and appraisals, a timber inventory that lists every merchantable tree and its value, timber sales, reforestation, wildlife management, hunting leases, control burning and boundary line work. The one species named is loblolly pine. A timber sale runs in steps. Every tree is marked and measured, and an itemized prospectus goes to known timber buyers. The timber is sold by lump-sum sealed bid, with a performance bond required and the right kept to refuse any and all bids. After closing, the firm collects the proceeds, watches the cutting, makes a final inspection and checks BMP compliance. The firm says it has "over 100 years of combined experience" in forestry. Its team holds Mississippi registered forester licenses and real estate broker licenses, and one member also holds a state certified general license. They belong to the Association of Consulting Foresters, the Society of American Foresters and the Mississippi Forestry Association. The smallest tract on its listings is 35 acres, more or less, in Neshoba County. It suits a landowner with a loblolly stand ready to sell who wants a sealed-bid sale run by foresters, or one who wants a written management plan and land help from the same firm. From jgguthrieandsons.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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John Girard Guthrie
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