Gracie & Harrigan Consulting
About Gracie & Harrigan Consulting
Gracie & Harrigan Consulting is a forestry consulting firm in Gladstone, New Jersey. They work in Somerset County, and they handle the kind of woodland the northern part of the state has plenty of: upland oaks, sugar maple, yellow poplar, and white ash. Their work covers forest management planning, forest stand improvement, timber management, invasive plant control, deer exclusion fencing, tree planting, boundary marking, GIS and digital mapping, and gypsy moth control. If you go the timber sale route, their foresters mark and measure trees individually first, so "only the necessary trees are included in the harvest." From there, the firm handles bid solicitation, contract preparation, collection of timber fees, and inspection of the work while it's underway. They note that small properties can be a hard sell to loggers on economics alone, so in those cases they try to line up a sale with a neighboring or nearby property to make the whole package worth a logger's time. There's no stated minimum acreage, but their own pages describe coordinating sales across adjoining properties specifically because small tracts alone may not pencil out for a logger, which tells you where their comfort zone starts. The firm is approved to practice by the NJ Department of Environmental Protection and says it was "organized in the late 1970's." They mention that initial consultations are often free, and that fees for long-range management plans are "surprisingly modest." This firm suits a Somerset County landowner who wants a full planning-and-paperwork approach, including farmland assessment help, rather than just a quick cash offer for standing timber. From gracieharrigan.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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