Scenic Rivers Farm & Forest Consulting, LLC
About Scenic Rivers Farm & Forest Consulting, LLC
Scenic Rivers Farm & Forest Consulting, LLC works out of Eminence, Missouri, helping landowners sell timber from start to finish. Michael Gaskins runs it, and the work covers the southern Missouri Ozarks and the central hardwoods region, including northeastern Dent County. They handle management planning, timber sale marking and administration, timber stand improvement, crop tree release, tree and shrub planting, prescribed fire, wildlife habitat work, timber valuation and appraisal, boundary maintenance, hardened stream crossings, and pasture or food plot work for livestock and wildlife. Species they work with include white oak, red oak, sugar maple, bald cypress, dogwood, and hickory, among other oak trees. When it comes time for a timber sale, the forester marks the trees to be cut with paint, estimates the board-foot volume of each one, and gives the landowner a spreadsheet of species, size, and volume before anything is cut. From there they can put together a bid solicitation, host a showing for bidders, open sealed lump-sum bids, and draw up the sale contract. Once logging starts, the forester checks the site along the way and does a final walk-through when it's done to close things out. They describe stumpage as "essentially the price paid at the sawmill less the cost of logging and transportation," and say the goal is to help a landowner "receive the most revenue for your marked standing timber while protecting the value in your woods now and for the future." This fits a landowner in the southern Missouri Ozarks who wants someone to walk the whole timber sale with them, from marking trees to closing out the contract. From scenicriversfarmforest.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
Hover or tap a service to see what it means for you.
Scenic Rivers Farm & Forest Consulting, LLC
Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll make the introduction. Free, no obligation.