Eric Hoberg
About Eric Hoberg
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.
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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