Yarnell Forestry Consulting
About Yarnell Forestry Consulting
Yarnell Forestry Consulting is a forestry consulting business based in Marshfield, Missouri, with Laclede County among the counties it serves. They work across southwest and south central Missouri. The work they take on covers forest management plans, timber valuation and appraisals, timber sale marking and administration, timber inventory, GIS mapping, forest stand improvement (also called timber stand improvement), woodland thinning, temporary forest openings, invasive plant control, and insect or disease damage diagnosis. They mention oak trees specifically, noting that stand improvement work can help increase acorn production for wildlife. Their approach starts with a forest management plan: "a professional forester evaluates your woods and prescribes target thinning levels and focus areas" before any thinning or harvest work begins. Eric Yarnell founded the business in Marshfield in 2011. He's an SAF Certified Forester and an ISA Certified Arborist, and belongs to the Association of Consulting Foresters, Missouri Consulting Foresters Association, Society of American Foresters, International Society of Arboriculture, and Missouri Forest Products Association. Cade Schmitz, also with the firm, is an SAF Candidate Certified Forester and Associate Wildlife Biologist. Their stated mission is to give "sound forest management advice and timber marketing assistance" to forest landowners. This fits a landowner who wants a forest management plan done right before any cutting starts, especially one managing oak woods for timber, wildlife, or both, in southwest or south central Missouri. From yarnellforestry.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
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