Ridge & Valley Forest Management Services
About Ridge & Valley Forest Management Services
Ridge & Valley Forest Management Services is a forestry consulting outfit working out of Augusta, New Jersey, with an office on US-Route 206. The business has been "managing healthy, productive, sustainable forests in northern New Jersey since 1979." This isn't a logging crew. The work here is consulting and planning: forest management plans, forest stand improvement, invasive species control, and help with Farmland Assessment paperwork for owners whose woodlot is more than half wooded. On the invasive species side, the team holds Commercial Applicator Licenses to spray herbicide on species like autumn olive, multiflora rose, and Japanese barberry, and they note that "the best time to treat invasive plants is before they take over your entire woodlot." The staff carries real paper: Approved Forester status in New Jersey, Certified Tree Farm Inspector, and membership in both the Society of American Foresters and the NJ Forest Association. The company serves Sussex County and is also found in Warren County records. Hours are by appointment only, and services beyond the four listed are still being filled out on their own site. This fits a landowner in northern New Jersey who wants a written forest management plan, help qualifying for Farmland Assessment, or invasive plants pushed back before they take over the understory, rather than someone looking to get trees cut and hauled right away. From ridgeandvalleyforest.com, read 10 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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