Metropolitan Forestry Service
About Metropolitan Forestry Service
Metropolitan Forestry Services is a tree care and consulting business in Ballwin, Missouri, working throughout the St. Louis area. They've been at it since 1976, so this is a long-running outfit, not someone new to the trade. Their main work is tree care rather than timber harvest: a Plant Health Care Program, tree maintenance, consulting, and landscape design and installation. Their staff are Certified Arborists, and they describe their approach as "science-based," built on "over 40 years of experience." This points to ongoing tree health and landscape work, the kind of thing a homeowner or landowner calls on for maintaining trees, treating disease, or planning plantings, rather than a timber sale. There's no acreage minimum stated, and nothing on their pages points to buying standing timber or logging. Their consulting service is arboricultural, meaning tree health and care advice, not a forestry sale. This fits a landowner near St. Louis who wants ongoing care for trees already standing on their property, not someone looking to sell timber or have a tract logged. From metro-forestry.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.
Everything they're registered for
Metropolitan Forestry Service
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