Forestry Consultants

Sun Mountain Logging, LLC is a logging contractor in Deer Lodge, Montana. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a consulting forester and a timber buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Ridgeway Milling & Custom Wood is a mill in Livingston, Montana. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a consulting forester and a logging contractor. A listing here is not an endorsement.

White Horse Forestry, INC. is a logging and forestry consulting business in Corvallis, Montana, serving Ravalli County. It is also listed under forestry consultants, and the register places it under fire protection service. Ron and AnnaMarie White run the company, and its own services page describes a skyline timber harvesting operation based in Mineral County that covers Western Montana as well. The work on offer includes timber harvesting, professional fallers, management plans, tree planting, and land clearing. They offer a free site visit to talk through fuel mitigation options, and say grant programs can help fund a project, in some cases up to 100 percent. Land clearing is done through hand thinning, piling, and burning, working to "render your property fire resistant and wildlife friendly." They also hold wildland fire suppression agreements with the US Forest Service, including Type-6 engines, Type 1 faller modules, and 20 person firefighting handcrews, and have held a Memorandum of Understanding with the Northern Rockies Coordinating Group to run NWCG certified courses since 2010. White Horse Forestry, INC. has been operating since 2005. This one suits a landowner whose main worry is fire risk as much as the timber sale itself, someone who wants fuel reduction, a management plan, and a crew that also works wildland fire contracts, rather than a straight harvest-and-go job. From whitehorseforestry.com, read 4 October 2026.

F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber is a sawmill and timber business in Columbia Falls, Montana, situated in the Flathead Valley between Columbia Falls and Whitefish. Along with running the mill, they buy logs, do logging, and offer forestry consulting to landowners, serving Flathead County. If you have timber to sell, you contact them and one of their foresters walks you through the process. Their services for private landowners include timber harvesting, private land management, and log buying. They say they "rely heavily on building relationships with local landowners and the community" to keep the mill supplied. Their foresters are "college trained professionals" and belong to the Society of American Foresters and the Montana Tree Farm System. They only contract with logging crews accredited through the Montana Logging Association, and they've committed to the SFI 2022 Standard for sustainable forestry. Stoltze Lumber was first established in Montana in August of 1912, and the current mill has operated at its Halfmoon Road site since 1923. This fits a landowner in the Flathead Valley area who wants to sell logs to an outfit that also runs its own mill and keeps foresters on staff to help plan the work, rather than a sole consultant working alone. From stoltzelumber.com, read 4 October 2026.

Idaho Forest Group is a consulting forester. It appears in the Montana Department of Natural Resources & Conservation, Consulting Forester Directory (2024). A consulting forester works for the landowner, not the buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Sun Mountain Lumber is a consulting forester in Powell County, Montana. It appears in the Montana Department of Natural Resources & Conservation, Consulting Forester Directory (2024). A consulting forester works for the landowner, not the buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Thompson River Lumber is a sawmill and timber buyer in Thompson Falls, Montana, up in the northwestern part of the state. It was founded in 1993 by Roger Claridge as a family business, and it's still run that way today, with Dan Claridge handling the day to day work at the mill. If you've got timber to sell, this is a place that buys harvested logs straight from landowners. They say they pay a "fair and reasonable price," and they take timber ranging from 42 inches down to 5.6 inches on the top end, across five different species. When you sell to them, you work from a Log Purchase Agreement, and specific cutting instructions come as part of that timber contract package, so you know what's expected before any logging starts. They also do their own log receiving, loading, and shipping, moving lumber out by rail on BNSF and by truck. Beyond private landowners, Thompson River Lumber also partners with the Montana Department of Natural Resources, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs on harvesting work tied to forest health. They have foresters on staff to talk through a sale or answer questions about where to go next with your timber. This looks like a fit for someone in or near northwestern Montana who already has timber cut, or close to it, and wants a straightforward buyer and mill rather than someone to walk a small, uncut tract from the ground up. From thompsonriverlumber.com, read 4 October 2026.

Weyerhaeuser is a consulting forester in Kalispell, MT, Montana. It appears in the Montana Department of Natural Resources & Conservation, Consulting Forester Directory (2024). A consulting forester works for the landowner, not the buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Eric Hoberg runs Quality Forest Management, a consulting forestry business in Montana. He works for private landowners, as well as state and federal agencies, tribal governments and forest industry. He offers "20 years of professional experience in forest management," and the work covers Montana and the Rocky Mountain Northwest. The services include forest management plans, forest inventory and forest valuation. He also does timber harvest layout and administration, timber marking, and fuel reduction with project layout and administration. Other work includes forest road engineering, forest carbon sequestration inventories, and forest insect and disease mitigation. Quality Forest Management suits a Montana landowner who wants one forester to plan, value or lay out a harvest, with inventory, road engineering or pest work handled by the same business. From qfmmt.com, read 21 October 2026.