Selling Timber in Chowan County, NC
Quick answer
There are 54 timber businesses listed for Chowan County, North Carolina: 29 consulting foresters and 25 timber buyers, loggers and mills. 3 of them have offices in the county. The rest are registered to work here and travel in, and every listing shows how far its office is from the county seat.
Each pin is a forester's office. The list below shows the same firms with the distance to the county seat.
Timber prices for Chowan County
No county publishes its own timber prices. These are North Carolina's published stumpage prices, what landowners are paid for standing timber, and the best public guide to what timber in Chowan County is bringing. Your own timber can sell above or below them.
| Pine sawtimber | $27.66 per ton |
| Pine chip-n-saw | $20.34 per ton |
| Pine pulpwood | $7.02 per ton |
| Oak sawtimber | $48.96 per ton |
| Mixed hardwood sawtimber | $28.03 per ton |
| Hardwood pulpwood | $5.15 per ton |
Source: NC State Extension, Q2 2026. All North Carolina timber prices
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Before you take the first offer
A timber buyer's job is to buy your timber as cheaply as they can. A consulting forester works for you — they measure what's standing, tell you what it's worth, and run a competitive sale, usually for a percentage of the price. That makes their interests line up with yours. 25 of the 29 foresters covering Chowan County offer the full set — appraisal, cruise, and running the sale itself. How to decide whether you need one
Consulting Foresters in Chowan County (2)
These 2 foresters have offices right here in Chowan County. A forester works for you, not for the buyer.
Seven services, and they are the ones that sell timber: management plans and mapping, stand improvement, appraisal, cruise, sale and contract administration, utilization and marketing, wildlife. That's a working forester's list rather than a full-service consultancy. The territory is wide for it — 30 counties taking in most of the coastal plain, from the Albemarle and Dare south through Craven and Onslow, with a reach inland to Franklin and Warren. Edenton office; no website listed on the register.
Surveying next to timber work is a rare pairing, and it's on this entry — a disputed line and a timber cruise can be settled in the same visit. The register also credits appraisal, cruising and sale administration, so a sale can be valued, measured and run start to finish. Coverage is deliberately small: Chowan, Perquimans, Pasquotank, Camden, Gates and Bertie, the counties around the Albemarle Sound. Fourth-oldest of the 178 registrations on the state register.
Consulting Foresters in Neighboring Counties (27)
Listed on the North Carolina Forest Service register as working Chowan County, from an office elsewhere. Closest first.
Timberlands Unlimited is a forestry consulting business out of Windsor, North Carolina. They've been doing this since 1980, when David L. Jennette Sr. started the company to bring independent forest management help to landowners in Eastern North Carolina and Southeastern Virginia. They handle the full range of what a landowner usually needs: forest management plans and mapping, timber cruising, appraisals, sale preparation and contract administration, reforestation, timber stand improvement, herbicide application, wildlife management, stewardship plans, and forest real estate. On the species side they work with loblolly pine and hardwoods like beech, hickory and oak. Their own staff does the timber cruising, appraisals and sale preparation, while reforestation work is contracted out but supervised by them. "Timberlands can handle any timber sale as the owner directs," whether that means a selective cut, a thinning, or a clearcut. The business carries the credential N.C. Registered Forester #638, and lists a reach across two dozen counties in Eastern North Carolina, including Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Currituck, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington and Wayne. There's no stated minimum acreage, but their timber sale listings include tracts down to township-level parcels like the Jackson Heirs Tract in Gates County, so small, specific tracts are clearly within what they'll take on. This looks like a fit for a landowner in Eastern North Carolina or Southeastern Virginia who wants a long-standing, staff-run consulting outfit to handle a sale or a management plan from start to finish, rather than a one-person operation. From timberlandsunlimited.com, read 10 October 2026.
Albemarle Land and Timber Services, Inc. is based in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and works with landowners on both timberland and real estate. A Registered Forester and Consulting Forester handle the work, and the company is also a licensed NC Real Estate Corporation. The services cover a lot of ground: forest management plans and mapping, reforestation, timber stand improvement, timber appraisal, timber cruise and volume estimate, timber sale and contract administration, logging engineering, prescribed burning, and more, down to the basics like thinning and painting boundary lines. Species handled include Loblolly Pine, Slash Pine, Long Leaf Pine, hardwood, and Bald Cypress. When it's time to sell, they cruise and appraise the timber, locate the boundaries, and flag streamside zones or other areas that need protection before the sale. They also look at your tax basis in the timber, since that can affect what you owe on the sale. Once a time line is set, they run a sealed bid sale or a contract sale, aiming "to take full advantage of competitive timber markets, thus maximizing your dollar." They say this approach "insures top dollar is paid for the timber." The service area for timber sales and management runs from Eastern North Carolina up through Southern Virginia, with named coverage in Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, and Washington counties. The forester holds N.C. Registered Forester credential #1045. This fits a landowner in the northeastern North Carolina counties who wants one outfit to handle the forestry side and the paperwork side of a timber sale, including the tax questions that come with it. From nclandandtimber.com, read 10 October 2026.
If your land is in the Albemarle — Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Chowan — this is a firm working from inside it, and the coverage carries twenty-nine counties down the coastal plain through Pitt and Lenoir to Onslow and Carteret. The full sale set is on the register: appraisal, cruise, sale administration. Forest taxation and forest real estate round out an eleven-service list. No prescribed burning is listed, which is worth knowing if that's part of what you need. ACF and SAF.
Roxobel sits in Bertie County, which puts this firm's office in the middle of the fourteen counties it covers — the Albemarle and the northeastern coastal plain. That is the argument for a firm like this: the same ground, over and over, rather than a territory spread thin. The register lists appraisal, cruising and sale administration, the three that let a firm value a stand and then run a competitive sale on it, plus logging engineering and wildlife management. No website is on file.
Based in Franklin, Virginia, north of the line, and registered for eleven North Carolina counties hugging the border and the Albemarle — Gates, Hertford, Northampton and their neighbors east to Currituck. Ten services, a compact list, but it covers appraisal, cruising and sale administration, which is the set a landowner needs to run a competitive timber sale. A website is listed on the register.
Two registered foresters rather than one, so the firm does not hang on a single person's calendar, covering twenty counties across the Albemarle and the northeastern coastal plain down to the Neuse. Fourteen services, prescribed burning and herbicide application included, and membership in the Association of Consulting Foresters. The firm dates its founding to 1974 and works from Ahoskie across eastern North Carolina, and it states plainly that it is independent of logging companies and sawmills while keeping working relationships with them — the distinction that matters when a landowner is deciding who represents them in a sale. Its timber sales follow a published seven-step process, from reading the stand and the market to choosing the sale type (pay-as-cut, lump-sum, trade, select cut, thinning or clearcut), administering it, monitoring the harvest against N.C. Best Management Practices and replanting afterwards, with reforestation stock named as loblolly, shortleaf and longleaf pine plus hardwood and wildlife species. Plans come in three published kinds — harvest and thinning, burn, and wildlife — with worked examples of each posted on the site, and the firm also does drone aerial photography and GIS mapping in-house and helps landowners apply for FSP, FMI, CRP, EQIP and other NRCS programmes. On the earlier caveat about valuation: the site does advertise appraisals, though framed as real estate work, saying it has brokers and appraisers who handle farmland and timberland of any size, so it is worth asking specifically whether a standing-timber appraisal is included. The firm publishes its own running tallies of 265,000 acres under management and 633 local clients served. As described on efmnc.com, read 22 September 2026.
The office is across the state line in Suffolk, Virginia, and the work listed here is not a timber sale. The register credits this firm with cruising and management mapping, but not with appraisal or sale administration — two of the three pieces a landowner needs to run a competitive sale. What it does list is environmental impact statements, wetland delineation, wildlife management and stewardship plans across eighteen counties in northeastern North Carolina, from the Albemarle counties inland to Nash, Franklin and Wilson. A six-service entry, and a narrow one on purpose.
Seventeen services is a long list by this register's standards, and the mix is unusual: urban forestry sits next to wetland delineation, prescribed burning and logging engineering, backed by membership in the International Society of Arboriculture rather than the usual forestry bodies. Twenty-two counties across the central and northeastern coastal plain, from Wayne and Johnston out to Hyde and Tyrrell. Appraisal, cruising and sale administration are all listed, so a sale can be valued, measured and run to contract. No website is on file.
Eighteen services — more than nine out of ten firms on the register carry — running from environmental impact statements and wetland delineation to herbicide work, urban forestry and recreation management. That breadth counts when a timber sale is tangled up with a wetland, an access road or a bigger estate question. The territory is the northeastern coastal plain and the Albemarle, twenty-two counties from Halifax and Warren out to Dare and Hyde. Note the office: Carrsville, Virginia, just across the line. Appraisal, cruise and sale administration are all listed.
Northeastern North Carolina, from the Albemarle counties of Camden, Currituck and Perquimans down through the Roanoke and Tar river country to Wake and Johnston — twenty-five counties in all. Twelve services, a working forester's list rather than a full-service consultancy: appraisal, cruise and sale administration, reforestation, timber stand improvement, prescribed burning and marketing. Both the Association of Consulting Foresters and the Society of American Foresters are on file, and the ACF admits full-time consultants only.
Based in Tarboro and working twenty-two counties across the northeastern coastal plain and up into the northern piedmont — Bertie, Hertford and Gates on one side, Orange and Alamance on the other. Fifteen services is a broad list, and it covers both halves of a landowner's problem: appraisal, cruising and sale administration for the harvest itself, then prescribed burning, herbicide, wildlife management and stewardship plans for what happens to the ground afterward. Forest taxation is on the entry as well.
Rock Springs Forestry, Inc. is a family owned forestry consulting business based in Capron, North Carolina. It has operated since 2000. The work it takes on covers the full run of forest management: forest management plans and mapping, reforestation, timber stand improvement, timber appraisal, timber cruise and volume estimate, timber sale and contract administration, logging engineering, insect, disease and fire protection, prescribed burning, utilization and marketing, herbicide application, wildlife management, and stewardship plans, along with clearcut and thinning or select cut timber sales. Its own description of how a job runs is simple: it gives landowners "advice and recommendations to best meet our clients' objectives," then carries out the services needed to get there. It notes three N.C. Registered Foresters on staff, and says it has planted over 100,000 acres and more than 50,000,000 seedlings for landowners, local, state and federal government, and corporations since 2000. It serves private landowners across Southeastern Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina, including the North Carolina counties of Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Nash, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Warren, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson. It describes itself as a family-owned "one-stop shop" handling everything from planting to timber sales. This fits a landowner who wants one firm to plan the work, from planting through a future timber sale, rather than hiring separate people for each step. From rockspringsforestry.com, read 10 October 2026.
Surveying, wetland delineation, environmental impact statements, prescribed burning, urban forestry, forest taxation — the register lists twenty services here, as many as any firm on it carries, and appraisal, cruising and sale administration are among them. The territory is thirty-six counties, reaching from the northern piedmont around Durham and Granville east across the coastal plain to Currituck, Dare and Hyde, with a southern arm into Cumberland, Hoke and Robeson.
Forty-six counties, close to half the state, and nearly all of it east of the piedmont: the Roanoke and Tar drainages, the full northeastern coastal plain, south through Craven and Onslow, out to Dare, Hyde and Tyrrell, with a western reach into Guilford, Alamance and Durham. Very few firms on the register cover that much ground with a single registered forester. Fifteen services, from appraisal, cruise and sale administration through prescribed burning, herbicide work, recreation and urban forestry. No website is listed.
The register gives Interstate Forest Products forty-five counties — the whole coastal plain from the Virginia line to South Carolina, plus a run up into Franklin, Granville and Warren — and eight services, appraisal and cruising among them but not sale administration. The firm's own site fills that gap. It describes itself as “a forestry consulting company serving Virginia and North Carolina,” trades as Interstate Forest Products LLC, and was founded in 2011 by Chuck Little after sixteen years buying timber for firms including Georgia-Pacific and Coastal Lumber; it says IFP is listed as a consulting forester in both states, with thirty years in these local timber markets. Most of the site is given over to the timber sale, run as a sealed bid: the cruise and appraisal that set a minimum bid never disclosed before the sale, a sale notice sent to buyers with the cruise attached, a sale map showing acres, access and harvest boundaries, three to four weeks for bidders to cruise it, bids read aloud on the day, and a thirty-day close in which the buyer runs the title search, prepares the timber deed and pays in full, timber rights usually running two years. Thinnings are handled differently: sold per ton, treated as a silvicultural treatment rather than a harvest, and awarded on the operator's care — the firm writes it would rather take a few cents less and be left with a good stand. Management plans are the other main line: acreage, ownership, location and objectives; stands divided by age, timber type, soil type and condition; soil maps and photographs; per-stand recommendations and a schedule by year. The site notes an up-to-date plan is required for reforestation cost share, and recommends replanting clearcuts with improved loblolly pine seedlings in late fall or winter, with site prep spray or bedding where needed and longleaf, shortleaf or hardwood alternatives where cost share helps. Another page argues there is no timber price index to watch, and that local mill conditions and logging weather matter more. The site publishes N.C. Registered Forester #1429, N.C. ProLogger certification and N.C. Forestry Association membership. As described on interstateforestproducts.com, read 23 September 2026.
Fifty-nine counties from a one-forester office in Beulaville — effectively the whole coastal plain, from the Currituck and Dare marshes south to Brunswick, plus a long reach west through the Triad into Surry and Yadkin. Eighteen services puts this firm near the top of the register for breadth, and two of them are worth noticing: wetland delineation and environmental impact statements, which matter if the tract has bottomland or a permitting question attached to it. Valuation, cruising and sale administration are all covered. No website is listed.
Effectively the eastern two-thirds of the state: sixty-eight counties covering every county on the coastal plain and most of the piedmont, which puts this among the widest-reaching listings on the register. Two registered foresters, the older registration numbered 914. The sale trio is present — appraisal, cruise, contract administration. Surveying is on the service list as well, alongside forest real estate and urban forestry, so a boundary or title question does not need a second firm. On its own site the business trades as Carolina Forestry & Realty, a privately owned professional corporation held by co-owners Keith Brouillard and Rodney Finkbiner and recognised by the N.C. Board of Registration for Foresters as a Professional Forestry Company, working in North Carolina and Virginia and claiming more than 30 years of it. Timber is sold for the landowner on a lump-sum sealed-bid basis, the site saying a sale can draw five to ten bids, after an appraisal done by cruising on larger even stands or by tree count on small or irregular ones. Beyond the sale it lists timberland investment analysis, comprehensive management plans with growth-and-yield and economic projections, pulpwood and residential or development thinnings, disease and pest management, property tax reduction, damage and trespass appraisals and boundary line maintenance. The forestry side sits next to a working rural land brokerage: both owners are licensed brokers and Realtors and the firm publishes its own listings, so a landowner deciding between selling timber and selling the tract can put both questions to the same office. As described on carolinaforestry.com, read 22 September 2026.
Seven registered foresters is the top of the range on the state register, and it comes attached to eighty-four counties — mountains to the Outer Banks, with very little of North Carolina out of reach. Scale like that means a landowner isn't waiting on one person's calendar, and it means the firm doesn't vanish when someone retires. Nineteen services: wetland delineation, environmental impact statements, forest taxation and urban forestry, alongside the appraisal, cruise and sale-administration combination a competitive timber sale actually runs on. ACF and SAF. The firm trades as GFR Forestry Consultants and dates itself to 1964, and it works from four North Carolina offices — Raleigh, Lillington, Tarboro and Lake Waccamaw — with its published service area running beyond the state line into South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and the Eastern Shore. Its own account of a timber sale runs from stand assessment through a sale announcement and marketing plan to bid management, handled by foresters it says keep current on local buyers, pricing and competition; on the management side it names timber inventory and valuation, timber trespass analysis, forest management planning, GIS mapping, boundary line location and maintenance, pulpwood thinning, pest and disease control, fire protection measures and hunt and lease management. Two services sit outside the usual consulting list: timber basis determination and tax planning for estates and long-held family land, and wood flow and logistics work for landowners or businesses moving product to buyers. It also runs a rural real estate side, brokering timberland, hunting and agricultural tracts through licensed N.C. brokers. As described on gfrforestry.com, read 22 September 2026.
Every county in North Carolina is listed against this firm — all 100 — which puts it in the small group on the register that will work anywhere in the state. The service list is narrow by comparison: ten entries, built tight around the sale itself, with appraisal, cruising and sale and contract administration at the middle and forest taxation, utilization and marketing, urban forestry and stewardship plans around them. Both ACF and SAF memberships are recorded. One registered forester covers that ground, which is worth knowing when you're arranging a visit.
The office is in Charlottesville, Virginia, a good way over the state line, but the North Carolina coverage is nothing marginal: 64 counties, wider than 93 percent of firms on the register. That takes in the whole piedmont and coastal plain east of the mountains, from Currituck and Brunswick inland to Surry and Rockingham. Two registered foresters, fifteen services — wetland delineation and environmental impact work sitting alongside the appraisal, cruise and sale-administration set — and ACF membership. The company website is a corporate one and says nothing about any particular North Carolina office or county: it states only that F&W's foresters are located throughout the United States, South America and Europe, and points visitors to a find-your-local-forester map. What it does set out is the firm behind the local contact. F&W says it was founded in 1962 by Eley Frazer and Frank Wetherbee, is headquartered in Albany, Georgia, and manages millions of acres of forestland worldwide; its published timeline runs from regional inventories and forestland appraisals in the 1970s, through growth from 25 employees in two states to 100 in eight states during the 1990s, to expansion into Uruguay and Brazil and the Tree Farm Group certification in the 2000s and the acquisition of Fountains US and UK in 2016. Eight service lines are published — timber sales, property management, field support services for TIMOs and REITs, forest inventory and mapping, forestland accounting, technical and analytical work, real estate, and natural capital. On timber sales specifically the firm describes pre-harvest valuation reporting on species, age and condition, sale layout and marketing to match timber to the best market, then on-site harvest supervision: harvest inspections and reporting, streamside management zone delineation, BMP compliance audits, timber marking, boundary re-marking and road maintenance oversight, with Phase I Environmental Site Assessment available during property transactions. As described on fwforestry.com, read 22 September 2026.
R.B. Klass Forestry Services, based in Cary, North Carolina, is listed as a forestry consultant and also as a timberland broker. The work on offer covers forest management plans and mapping, reforestation, timber stand improvement, timber appraisal, timber cruise and volume estimates, timber sale and contract administration, logging engineering, forest real estate, forest taxation, and utilization and marketing. Its own pages describe building land management plans, "usually covering 10 years or more," based on an analysis of timber stands and what the landowner wants. It works in pine and hardwood, and also pine straw. Thinning work ranges from pre-commercial thinning in young pine stands to commercial pulpwood thinning, crop tree release, and commercial improvement cuts in hardwood and mixed stands, with trees marked by hand depending on the age, size, and stocking of each stand. Reforestation work includes site preparation, seedling selection, and cost share paperwork, and it says it searches out "the best genetically improved seedlings on a tract-by-tract objective basis." It also offers Tree Farm certification, prescribed burning, wildlife habitat work, and hunting lease negotiation. It serves Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Hertford, Martin, Nash, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Warren, Wayne, and Wilson counties. It holds an N.C. Registered Forester credential (provisional), #472, and has been "helping landowners reach their goals since 1983." The smallest job shown on its pages is the Linden Tract on the Lower Little River, a roughly 306 acre property, which gives a sense of the scale it has handled. This suits a landowner with a larger timber tract who wants a full management plan built around it, not just a quick one-off sale. From ncforester.com, read 10 October 2026.
All 100 counties, which only a handful of firms on the state register can claim — wherever the tract sits in North Carolina, this one covers it. Two registered foresters, and the older of the two registrations is number 482, sixteenth-oldest of the 178 on the register. Appraisal, cruise and sale administration are all here, so a landowner can value the stand, measure it and run the sale through to contract in one place. Seventeen services in all, out as far as Christmas tree management, urban forestry and forest taxation. The firm holds Association of Consulting Foresters membership, which is limited to full-time consultants. The firm calls itself family owned and says it has run a consulting forestry business for over 40 years; William H. Lock has retired from full-time forestry work and his son Jonathan C. Barnes, who passed the state forestry exam in 2002, now runs the company as president. Alongside state registration in both North Carolina and Virginia it claims Certified Forester and Certified Arborist credentials, Tree Farm Inspector status and Technical Service Provider approval for NRCS cost-share programs, and it offers work turn-key — timber inventory, marketing, harvest inspection and reforestation through one office — plus timber tax basis estimates, timber trespass reports, growth models for income projections and landowner seminars and field tours. Real estate is the one thing it has pulled back from: the site says that side is now limited to advice and referrals rather than listing and selling land. Its public timber sale notices, bids taken sealed at the office, run from 2010 through 2021 and cover tracts from a few acres up to about 280, clustered in Rockingham, Guilford, Alamance and Caswell counties and over the line into Henry and Pittsylvania counties, Virginia. A first consultation is offered free. As described on whlock.com, read 22 September 2026.
All one hundred counties — one of the few listings on the register that covers the entire state. The registration here is number 8, the second-oldest of the 178 registrations on the register, which is about as long a tenure as North Carolina forestry has to offer. Beyond the sale work of appraisal, cruise and contract administration, this firm surveys, so a boundary question and a timber cruise can be settled on the same visit. Christmas tree management, wetland delineation and environmental impact statements are also listed.
Milliken Advisors Inc. is a forestry consulting and timberland brokerage business in Columbia, North Carolina. It works with landowners on the kind of jobs that come with owning timberland, from planning a sale to planting trees back after a harvest. The work on offer covers forest management plans and mapping, reforestation, timber stand improvement, timber appraisal, timber cruise and volume estimates, timber sale and contract administration, insect, disease and fire protection, prescribed burning, forest real estate, recreation management, forest taxation, utilization and marketing, herbicide application, and stewardship plans. The forester holds N.C. Registered Forester credential #1394. Milliken Advisors serves landowners across a long list of North Carolina counties, among them Wake, Mecklenburg, Guilford, Buncombe, and Dare. The business has been working with landowners since 1949. Its own description of how a job runs is plain: "Once we know what you want, we take a good look at your land: its current state, what's happening in the market, and what the future could hold. Then we build a strategy that actually fits your needs." On follow-through, it says "You don't have to worry about juggling contractors or chasing down deadlines." This fits a landowner who wants one firm to handle a timber sale or a management plan from start to finish, rather than piecing the work together themselves. From millikenadvisors.com, read 10 October 2026.
Statewide coverage — all 100 North Carolina counties — from an office in Gainesville, Georgia. Fifteen services are recorded, including the three that make a timber sale work: appraisal, cruising, and sale and contract administration. Prescribed burning, herbicide application, urban forestry and stewardship plans fill out the rest. The register carries this entry under the name US Forest Service, with one N.C. Registered Forester and no website given.
Worth reading the service list closely here. The register credits this entry with timber cruising and sale administration but not timber appraisal — so the valuation step most landowners want before going to market isn't among the listed services. What is listed is broad: 48 counties across the northeastern piedmont and most of the coastal plain, plus reforestation, forest real estate, wildlife management and stewardship plans. The office address is Atlanta, Georgia. No website is on file.
Hunt Forest Resources, LLC is a timber buyer based in Moncure, North Carolina, with forestry consulting, firewood, and wood recycling run alongside it. They buy stumpage, sawlogs, pulpwood, and chip-n-saw timber in pine and hardwood, and they also handle forest management plans and mapping, timber cruise and volume estimates, timber appraisal, timber sale and contract administration, reforestation, timber stand improvement, prescribed burning, herbicide application, insect and fire protection, and wildlife and recreation management. Their registered forester holds N.C. Registered Forester #1438, and the company carries ProLogger and American Tree Farm System (ATFS) standing. They work across a long list of North Carolina counties, from Alamance, Durham, and Wake, through Chatham and Moore, down to Brunswick and New Hanover, and out east to Dare, Hyde, and Beaufort, along with many others. On their own pages they describe offering "a diverse range of services that span the entire lifecycle of forest products, from land and timber management to sustainable harvesting, real estate services, wood products manufacturing and beyond," and say they manage "7,000 acres of timberland annually" across four facilities in the state. This suits a landowner who wants one outfit that can buy the timber, write the management plan, and keep an eye on the ground afterward, rather than stitching together a buyer, a consultant, and a logger separately. From huntforestry.com, read 10 October 2026.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills in Chowan County (1)
This buyer is based in Chowan County. Being close matters: hauling is one of the biggest costs taken out of your check.
Evans Lumber Co is a mill in Edenton, North Carolina. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills Nearby (24)
Businesses that buy, cut or mill timber in Chowan County, working from a nearby town.
Carolina East Forest Products is a timber buyer in Ahoskie, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: All Hardwoods and All Softwoods. Products: Standing Timber, Sawlogs, Pulpwood, Chip-N-Saw Logs, Ply or Veneer Logs and Poles. It covers 10 counties, including Bertie, Chowan, Edgecombe and Gates. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Carolina Pine & Hardwood Inc is a logging contractor in Windsor, North Carolina. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Coburn Forest Products LLC is a timber buyer in Winton, North Carolina. It buys standing timber from landowners, and it also does logging work. It buys both hardwoods and softwoods. Its buying area runs from central and southern Virginia to northeastern and central North Carolina, roughly 100 miles out from the business. The counties it names are Bertie, Chowan, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Martin, Nash, Northampton, Pitt, Warren, Washington and Wilson. Tracts are bought either lump sum or pay-as-cut. The services are conventional logging, thinnings and low-ground logging. Its logging page also covers clear cuts, which remove all the trees from an area and are most common in pine and hardwood forests. The business describes its cutting as "Designed to cut to the landowner's specifications and needs", whether the job is commercial or private. The company was started in 2007. Ronald Coburn has 41 years of timber buying behind it. All of its loggers are NCFA Pro-Logger trained and certified, or SHARP logger certified. Ronald is joined by his son Mark, daughter-in-law Elise, Mike Pollard and Amy Mejia. It suits a landowner in one of the named counties who wants to sell standing timber by lump sum or pay-as-cut, or who wants a thinning done with the cut set to their own plans. From coburnforestproducts.com, read 26 October 2026.
Conetoe Land & Timber, LLC is a timber buyer in Goldsboro, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: All Hardwoods and All Softwoods. Products: Standing Timber, Sawlogs and Pulpwood. It covers 18 counties, including Beaufort, Bertie, Chowan and Durham. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Almost nothing about this company is verifiable from public sources. It appears in this directory's source data as an independent logging contractor working across twelve eastern North Carolina counties, but it does not appear on the NC Forest Service timber-buyer tables for Washington or Beaufort counties, has no Carolina Loggers Association directory entry, no federal motor-carrier registration, and no website, Facebook page, BBB file or published review that could be found.
Enviva Pellets Southampton, LLC is a timber buyer based in Franklin, Virginia, serving North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: All Hardwoods and All Softwoods. Products: Chips, Pulpwood and Standing Timber. It covers 47 counties, including Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen and Camden. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Franklin Lumber, LLC is a timber buyer based in Franklin, Virginia, serving North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: S Yellow Pine. Products: Sawlogs. It covers 20 counties, including Bertie, Camden, Chowan and Currituck. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Twelve power units and nine drivers put this among the larger logging outfits working out of Plymouth. The federal SAFER database lists H & L Logging as a private interstate carrier under USDOT #1796742, hauling logs, poles, beams and lumber, with its MCS-150 registration last updated in December 2025. By fleet size that is several times the one- and two-truck operations that make up most of the DOT-registered loggers in this corner of the state. A Carolina Loggers Association directory entry matches the name, but the directory lists no location, so the match is unconfirmed. No website, rating or review was found.
Hofler Logging Inc. is a timber buyer in Gatesville, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: All Hardwoods and All Softwoods. Products: Standing Timber, Sawlogs, Pulpwood and Fuel Chips. It covers 10 counties, including Bertie, Camden, Chowan and Currituck. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
International Paper Co is a timber buyer based in Courtland, Virginia, serving North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: S Yellow Pine, Yellow Poplar, Sweetgum, Soft Maple, Black/Tupelo Gum, Red Oak, White Oak and Hickory. Products: Standing Timber, Sawlogs, Pulpwood and Boiler Fuel. It covers 20 counties, including Bertie, Camden, Chowan and Currituck. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
J.W. Jones Lumber Co. is a chip mill in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. It takes in small diameter and pulpwood logs and chips them for paper manufacturing. The mill works in both pine and hardwood, turning out chips rather than sawn lumber. As they put it, "the mill chips small diameter/pulpwood logs to make both pine and hardwood chips for use in paper manufacturing." Their listed service area is Pasquotank County. There's no stated minimum tract size, so if you're a landowner with just a handful of acres of small or low-grade timber, this may be worth a call to ask whether your wood fits what they take. There's no description here of how a timber sale would run, what they pay, or whether they buy standing timber at all. This looks like a destination for pulpwood and small diameter logs rather than a full-service outfit that walks a landowner through a sale from marking trees to cutting a check. This fits a landowner who already knows they have pulpwood-grade pine or hardwood and wants a mill that takes that kind of wood, not someone looking for help managing a first timber sale from start to finish. From jwjoneslumber.com, read 10 October 2026.
Josey Lumber Co. Inc. is a timber buyer in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Mackeys Ferry Sawmill Inc. is a timber buyer in Roper, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: S Yellow Pine, Cypress, Yellow-Poplar, Soft Maple, Red Oak, White Oak and Ash. Products: Sawlogs and Standing Timber. It covers 12 counties, including Beaufort, Bertie, Camden and Chowan. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Mill Creek Timber Co., Inc. is a timber buyer in Cedar Point, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: S Yellow Pine, Cypress, Ash, Beech, Black/Tupelo Gum, Cottonwood, Hickory and Soft Maple. Products: Standing Timber. It covers 24 counties, including Beaufort, Bertie, Carteret and Chowan. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
A timber management firm and a real estate brokerage in one: the company's own site says it buys land as well as standing timber and is 'always looking for mutually profitable transactions that benefit our customers, employees, and the larger environment.' In business since December 1986, it has been a BBB-accredited business since November 2021 and carries an A+ rating. The BBB file describes the work as procuring, merchandising and harvesting timber tracts, buying standing timber and facilitating replanting through the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. On harvesting, the company says its methods 'minimize disturbance of the land and leave it ready for a new crop of timber.'
Stewart's Forest Services, Inc. is a timber buyer in Germantown, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: All Hardwoods and All Softwoods. Products: Standing Timber, Sawlogs and Pulpwood. It covers 99 counties, including Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany and Anson. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Swain & Temple Inc is a logging contractor in South Mills, North Carolina. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Tri-State Land & Timber, LLC is a timber buyer in Pelham, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: All Hardwoods and All Softwoods. Products: Standing Timber. It covers 6 counties, including Alamance, Caswell, Durham and Orange. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Tri-State Land & Timber, LLC is a timber buyer in Harrells, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: All Hardwoods and All Softwoods. Products: Standing Timber. It covers 22 counties, including Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and Camden. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Virginia-Carolina Forest is a family owned and operated lumber company in Lawrenceville, Virginia. Owen M. Strickler, III, its president, bought the sawmill from Ezell Lumber Company in 1991, and he has worked in the forest products business for over 35 years. The mill saws hardwood and pine. It now produces approximately 10 million board feet of hardwood, kiln dried, and 12 million board feet of surfaced yellow pine. It handles yellow pine, cypress, yellow poplar, sweetgum, soft maple, black tupelo gum, red oak, white oak, hickory, ash and other hardwoods. It belongs to the Hardwood Manufacturers Association, the Virginia Forest Products Association and the American Hardwood Export Council. Export is a large part of the work: "integral part of our business," in its words, and the mill sits 100 miles from the port of Norfolk. The counties on its list are Bertie, Chowan, Franklin, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Martin, Nash, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans and Warren, all in North Carolina. It suits a landowner who wants to know the sawmills in this part of Virginia and North Carolina, and who is looking for a mill rather than someone to buy standing timber from the woods. From virginiacarolina.com, read 17 October 2026.
Weyerhaeuser - Ayden Lumber is a timber buyer in Ayden, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: S Yellow Pine. Products: Sawlogs and Standing Timber. It covers 25 counties, including Beaufort, Bertie, Carteret and Chowan. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
About 165 people work at the Plymouth lumber mill, which went 362 consecutive days without a recordable injury in 2024 by Weyerhaeuser's own account of the site. It is a softwood sawmill - an industry mill locator places it on NC Highway 149 north of town - and the NC Forest Service register shows it buying southern yellow pine as sawlogs and as standing timber across eleven eastern counties. The mill is a facility of publicly traded Weyerhaeuser Company, and the state register lists a raw materials manager rather than an owner as the buying contact, so a landowner is selling to a corporate procurement desk.
Questions landowners ask
How many timber buyers and foresters serve Chowan County?
54 businesses are listed for Chowan County: 29 consulting foresters and 25 buyers, loggers and mills. 3 of them have offices in the county.
How much is my timber worth in Chowan County?
Nobody can tell you what your timber is worth without walking it. Value depends on the species, the size and grade of the trees, how thickly they stand, the ground conditions and how easily a logger can reach them. North Carolina State Extension publishes quarterly average stumpage prices by region, which tells you what the market is doing, not what your tract holds. Anyone who quotes you a figure without seeing the land is guessing, and a guess in that direction is rarely in your favour.
What stumpage value means →Do I need a forestry consultant to sell timber in Chowan County?
You do not have to use one. A consulting forester works for you rather than the buyer, marks the timber, runs a sealed-bid sale and typically charges a percentage of the sale. Research from several state extension services has found that timber sold through a consultant often returns enough more to cover the fee, though results vary by tract and by market. The decision usually turns on the size of the sale and whether you have sold timber before.
Do I need a forestry consultant? →Do I need a permit to cut timber in North Carolina?
There is no statewide permit to harvest timber on your own land in North Carolina, but several rules still apply: the Forest Practices Guidelines for water quality, local county and municipal ordinances that can regulate harvesting, and sedimentation rules where a stream is involved. Requirements vary by county, so check with the county before work starts.
Permits and rules in North Carolina →What is timber worth in Chowan County?
No price series is published for Chowan County on its own. North Carolina's latest published stumpage figures (NC State Extension, Q2 2026) put oak sawtimber at $48.96 per ton. What your own timber brings depends on the species, the size and amount of it, and how far it is from a mill. A timber cruise by a forester settles it.
Forester listings for Chowan County come from the North Carolina Forest Service register, revised 06-Apr-26. The register is updated quarterly.