Selling Timber in Forsyth County, NC
Quick answer
There are 88 timber businesses listed for Forsyth County, North Carolina: 41 consulting foresters and 47 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 Forsyth 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 Forsyth 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. 39 of the 41 foresters covering Forsyth County offer the full set — appraisal, cruise, and running the sale itself. How to decide whether you need one
Consulting Foresters in Forsyth County (2)
These 2 foresters have offices right here in Forsyth County. A forester works for you, not for the buyer.
Eastern Forest Consultants describes itself as a professional forest consulting firm serving the eastern United States, based in Clemmons with an additional office in Christiansburg, Virginia. Its primary client is the non-industrial private forest landowner, and the firm says it has found a niche providing services for landowners with relatively small projects, starting with a free initial consultation and a site visit with a forester. Its argument to owners is that active management beats letting a stand develop naturally, yielding greater returns in less time, and that neglect carries real risk from catastrophic wildfire, invasive species and forest pests, whether the objective is income, wildlife, hunting or long-term stewardship. It recommends a management plan that is kept current and actually executed. Published services include timber sales, timber inventory, management plans, herbicide application, tree planting, boundary line recon and painting, crop tree release, pre-commercial thinning, forest road layout, GPS and GIS mapping, and timber trespass resolution. The firm also contracts its crews to other consultants and agencies on an hourly, daily or production basis, and maintains relationships with the North Carolina Forest Service, the Virginia Department of Forestry and the U.S. Forest Service. State registration covers fifty-one counties across the mountains and piedmont. As described on easternforestconsultants.com, read 23 September 2026.
Registration 275 is the seventh oldest of the 178 on the N.C. Forest Service register — very few names on that list have been there longer. The territory is the northwestern piedmont: Forsyth, Guilford, Davidson and Rowan, up through the Yadkin Valley counties to Stokes, Surry and the Virginia line. Nine services, and it reads as a working forester's list rather than a full-service consultancy — management plans, reforestation, stand improvement, insect and fire protection, prescribed burning, and the appraisal, cruise and sale administration a sale runs on.
Consulting Foresters in Neighboring Counties (39)
Listed on the North Carolina Forest Service register as working Forsyth County, from an office elsewhere. Closest first.
Central and northern piedmont work: nineteen counties anchored on the Triad and running out to Surry, Alleghany, Moore and Lee. Twelve services, including the three a timber sale needs — valuing the stand, cruising it, and administering the sale — plus logging engineering, prescribed burning and forest taxation. One registered forester. No association memberships or website are listed in the register.
Tight and central: sixteen counties through the middle and north of the piedmont, with Davidson, Davie, Rowan and Randolph at the core, Surry and Stokes up on the Virginia line, and Granville and Person to the east. Ten services, appraisal, cruising and sale administration among them, so a stand can be valued, measured and taken to sale. Forest taxation and forest real estate are also recorded — the questions that surface when land and timber change hands at the same time.
Forty-seven counties is wide coverage by any measure — more than double what the median firm on the register carries — and this footprint runs from the Uwharries and the Charlotte-to-Triad piedmont north to the Virginia line and west into Wilkes, Watauga, Ashe and Avery, with a southern arm through the sandhills at Hoke, Scotland and Cumberland. Sixteen services, the complete sale set among them: appraisal, cruise, sale administration. Wetland delineation and urban forestry on the same list is a less common pairing.
Fifty-eight counties is a big footprint — wider than nine out of ten firms on the register — and it stretches from the mountain counties around Watauga and Avery clear across the piedmont into the inner coastal plain at Wayne, Greene and Edgecombe. Two registered foresters, so the work does not stall if one is booked. Appraisal, cruising and sale administration are all listed, and unusually the firm pairs woodland work with urban forestry and an arboriculture credential, which matters if the tract sits on the edge of a growing town.
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.
Blanton Forestry, PLLC is a one-forester practice in Dobson, Surry County, whose N.C. Forest Service consulting-forester register entry covers 29 counties reaching from the northern mountains through the foothills to the Charlotte suburbs and records nine services: forest management plans and mapping, timber stand improvement, timber appraisal, timber cruise and volume estimates, timber sale and contract administration, logging engineering, recreation management, forest taxation and wildlife management. The firm describes itself on its own site as a forestry-wildlife consulting business located in Surry County and serving northwest North Carolina and southwest Virginia, and says its mission is to help landowners manage their natural resources to accomplish their goals, which it says can range from managing timber for income to creating better wildlife habitat; it notes that forest management is a long term process and that income from it is usually a once in a lifetime event for most landowners. On services the firm says it provides inventory work for timber buyers, sawmills and other consultants; timber appraisals used to judge the timing of a sale, establish timber basis or value an estate; forest and wildlife management plans, which it notes are also required to qualify for Present Use Evaluation for deferred county property taxes; and timber sales, for which it says it locates the sale boundaries, conducts an appraisal, provides an estimated market value, sends notices to prospective buyers, runs the sale and oversees the harvest. The site publishes a table of its timber sales with acreage and volume for each, showing tracts from a few acres up to parcels of around fifty acres in Surry, Yadkin and Stokes counties and one in Carroll County, Virginia. The firm is owned and operated by Chris Blanton, who the site says holds dual B.S. degrees in fisheries and wildlife management and forest management, graduated in 1998, and has since worked in contract forestry services and consulting forestry; he is a Registered Consulting Forester in North Carolina and, in the firm's words, a candidate member of the ACF. The firm publishes its completed timber sales with the tract size of each, and the smallest of them is the Stroud sale in Surry County at 3.2 acres (65 MBF), so it has demonstrably worked a tract that size; the minimum recorded here is taken from that job rather than from a stated policy, and the firm is welcome to correct it. As described on blantonforestry.com, read 23 September 2026.
Yadkin Forestry & Realty has been serving landowners since 1997, and the practice pairs forestry consulting with real estate — the site points visitors to an affiliated brokerage at YadkinRealEstate.com. Its stated objective is to work closely with landowners to protect and promote their interests in forestry and land-related practices, with a consulting forester who stays current on market trends so clients get the best value from their forestry investments. Todd Dowdle is described on the about page as a Registered Forester in both North and South Carolina, a Certified Arborist with the International Society of Arboriculture and a licensed North Carolina Real Estate Broker, holding a bachelor's degree in Forest Resource Management from NC State University along with study in Forest Resources at Penn State University and business management. The firm's own service list runs to timber sales and appraisals, reforestation, acquisition tax basis work, pine thinning, prescribed fire, timberland sales and acquisition, management plans, boundary maintenance, GPS/GIS mapping and real estate sales and acquisition, with further pages on insect control, herbicide and fertiliser, wildlife and recreation, tax incentives and forest economics. On timber sales it describes advertising the sale, securing and evaluating bids, preparing and enforcing contracts, and pre-planning and managing the logging operation, and it frames management planning as aiming at the highest economic return while potentially reducing annual county land taxes. On reforestation it makes an explicit case for genetically improved loblolly: a naturally regenerated hardwood stand typically produces around 50 to 60 mature trees per acre by 60 to 70 years of age, while improved loblolly seedlings can yield 110 to 120 mature sawtimber trees per acre on a 30 to 40 year rotation. Affiliations named on the site are the Association of Consulting Foresters of America, Society of American Foresters as a Certified Forester, the International Society of Arboriculture as a Certified Arborist, the Tree Farm Program as an inspector, and the NC Forestry Association. The register territory is thirty-seven counties across most of the piedmont — Mecklenburg and Wake at either end, Randolph and Davidson in between — climbing into the northwestern mountain counties of Ashe, Alleghany, Avery and Watauga; the firm's own pages describe the practice in terms of North and South Carolina rather than a county list. (source: yadkinforestry.com, read 22 September 2026)
Daniel W. Edwards, Consulting Forester P.A. is a forestry consulting and timberland brokerage based in Asheboro, North Carolina. Dan Edwards works with landowners on timber and land matters across North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, with named service counties in North Carolina that include Randolph, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Wake, Chatham, Orange, Durham, Johnston, Moore, Richmond, Robeson, Rowan and others. The work covers forest management plans and mapping, timber appraisal, timber cruise and volume estimate, timber sale and contract administration, insect, disease and fire protection, forest real estate, forest taxation, and utilization and marketing. Species worked with include loblolly pine, longleaf pine, yellow poplar, white oak, hickory, maple and gum. On a timber sale, the approach covers "timber valuation, buyer selection, sale preparation, contract terms, boundary considerations, harvest oversight, and post-harvest recommendations." For land purchases, Dan will "evaluate potential land purchases with regard to timber value, soils, local market values, and potential problems." No stated minimum acreage was found. The smallest job shown is +/- 23 Acres in Davie County, listed for sale. Dan Edwards holds N.C. Registered Forester #612 and is a licensed real estate broker in North Carolina. The business states over 40 years of experience. This fits a landowner in North Carolina, South Carolina or Virginia who wants one person to handle both the timber side and a possible land sale, rather than juggling a forester and a broker separately. From dedwardsforester.com, read 10 October 2026.
Tugwell Consulting Forestry, P.A. is a consulting forestry firm based in Asheboro, North Carolina. They work with landowners, private industry, and government agencies, handling timber inventory and appraisals, timber sales, forest management plans, timber harvest recommendations, thinnings, and reforestation. They also offer real estate services for timberland. Their work covers the full range a landowner might need: forest management plans and mapping, timber cruising and volume estimates, timber sale and contract administration, logging engineering, timber stand improvement, prescribed burning, wetland delineation, and wildlife management, among other services. The firm holds N.C. Registered Forester credential #775, and says it is "home of the 2016-2018 President of the Association of Consulting Foresters of America, Inc." They describe over 35 years of forestry experience. They are based in the center of North Carolina and serve landowners across a long list of counties, including Randolph, Guilford, Davidson, Chatham, Moore, Wake, Montgomery, and Richmond, among many others, and say they also travel into surrounding states to reach clients. Tugwell describes itself as "a privately owned business located in Asheboro, NC specializing in property management and timber investments," working with owners who want to raise property value, grow timber value, build a sustainable asset, or improve wildlife habitat. This fits a landowner anywhere in central North Carolina who wants one firm to handle the whole process, from walking the tract and writing the management plan through to running the timber sale itself, rather than hiring separate people for each step. From tugwellforestry.com, read 10 October 2026.
Elkin sits roughly in the middle of this range: a band of twenty counties running from the Triad northwest through Surry and Wilkes into Ashe, Watauga and Avery. That is median reach for the register — half the firms cover fewer. Fifteen services listed, including the full sale sequence of valuing the stand, cruising it and running the sale through to contract, plus herbicide application, wetland delineation and stewardship plans. One registered forester, and no website on file.
Casey & Company Forestry, PLLC works from 310 E. Main Street in Wilkesboro across the twenty-seven counties on its register entry, reaching from the northwestern mountains and foothills down to Wake, Johnston and the Sandhills, and the project's own research record of the firm's home page notes a stated reach into North Carolina and Virginia. The framing on that home page is about making land work for its owner: exploring options for creating income from land, reducing the taxes paid on it, selling it, or finding land to buy for investment. As North Carolina Registered Foresters, the page says, the firm knows land and timber and manages tens of thousands of acres for private forestland owners, and it offers custom mapping that helps prospective buyers find a property and see its most attractive features. The services page sets out forestry management covering forest taxation, crop tree release thinning, herbicide release assistance, forest maintenance, forest health issues, reforestation assistance, Tree Farm and hunting leases; timber appraisals estimating what standing timber is worth at present market conditions; inventories gathering forest types, timber volumes, tree quality and health, age, size, growth rates and site quality; comprehensive timber sales in which the firm handles every aspect on the owner's behalf while maintaining the environmental integrity of the land; and mapping with affordable site assessments. Real estate is a genuine second arm rather than a sideline, specialising in forestland, rural homesites and local commercial properties, and the site argues that most traditional brokers, used to selling houses, have no idea about the timber value standing on a tract. The published timber sales page shows the scale of tract handled, a sold 53.3-acre Wilkes County sale carrying 720.5 Mbf, about 13.5 Mbf to the acre. As described on caseyandcompany.com, read 23 September 2026.
The northern mountains around Ashe, Watauga and Avery, down through the foothills at Burke and Caldwell, then east across the western piedmont to Mecklenburg, Guilford and Rockingham — thirty-four counties in all. Registration 546 is the twenty-fourth oldest of 178, a long time on the state register. Fourteen services, appraisal and cruising and sale administration among them, with forest taxation and forest real estate for the landowner weighing a sale against holding on. ACF and SAF. Jeff Pardue has consulted in Wilkesboro since 1982 and incorporated the business as Forestland Consultants, Inc. in 1996; he is a Fellow of the Society of American Foresters, a past president of the N.C. Society of Consulting Foresters and a licensed N.C. real estate broker, and a second registered forester, Will Beauchamp, joined in 2023 alongside an office manager who has been there since 1992. The firm describes its clients as private, non-industrial owners holding anywhere from five acres to five thousand or more, and its own published harvest list bears that range out at the small end: ongoing and past jobs run from nine acres in Wilkes and in Ashe up to 145 in Alleghany, spread across Wilkes, Yadkin, Iredell, Ashe, Alexander, Alleghany, Burke and Avery counties. It sells timber as the landowner's broker by announced auction, with sale dates and tract sizes posted openly on the site, and adds logging road design, herbicide contracting, pre-commercial thinning, cost-share guidance, hunt lease management, forest mapping and expert witness work to the register's list. Written management plans are offered partly to qualify land for North Carolina's Use Value Assessment programme, which cuts the property tax on forestland. On tract size the firm states that most of its clients “own as little as 5 acres to as much as 5,000 acres or more”, and its published sale list includes jobs of 9 and 10 acres, so five acres is the smallest holding it says it works with. As described on forestlandconsultants.com, read 22 September 2026.
Two registered foresters, and the older of the two registrations sits twenty-ninth of 178 on the state register — near the front of the line. Coverage takes in the western piedmont and foothills and reaches up into Ashe, Avery and Watauga. Alongside appraisal, cruise and sale administration, the firm lists surveying, wetland delineation and environmental impact statements. That is an unusual pairing: the same visit that measures the timber can settle a boundary line or flag a wet corner before it stalls the harvest. ACF membership means consulting is the business, not a sideline.
Registration 392 is the tenth-oldest entry on the North Carolina register, about as long a tenure as this directory contains. Coverage runs seventy counties — the entire mountain west, the whole piedmont, and down through the sandhills to the southeastern coast, stopping short only of the northeastern corner. Thirteen services, including appraisal, cruising and sale administration, plus forest taxation, forest real estate and prescribed burning. For a landowner whose sale is tangled up with an estate or a tax question, that last combination is the point.
Evergreen Forest Management is Daron Brown, a North Carolina registered forester based at Millers Creek in Wilkes County, and the register puts him across thirty-five counties, from Ashe and Watauga down through Burke and Catawba to Guilford and Rockingham. His own account is more specific. He writes that his career began in 1989 in eastern North Carolina as a procurement forester for a wood dealership and sawmill, and that after ten years buying timber and managing loggers he moved back to Wilkes County and opened Evergreen in 2000. Since then, he says, he has served clients in northwestern North Carolina and southwestern Virginia, most of the work being timber sales and appraisals intermixed with stewardship and management plans; the home page also announces services for all of northeast Tennessee. The site describes a practice specialising in timber sales for private landowners, with management and present-use tax plans, stewardship plans, forest inventory and mapping, wildlife management, reforestation, thinnings, prescribed burns, hunting lease management, insect and disease control and invasive vegetation control alongside. The timber sale contract is set out step by step: marking property lines and securing a surveyor if they cannot be found, a full appraisal of acreage, species, size, volume and market value, advertising the timber and overseeing bidding or negotiation, handling timber deeds and cutting contracts, supervising the harvest for compliance, and a closing inspection against state environmental rules — which, the site notes, can otherwise leave a landowner fined for a logging contractor's violations. Appraisals are offered for estate divisions, financial planning, tax baselines and loan collateral, and come as a written valuation broken down by species, stand, diameter, height and board foot. Brown states he is a member of the Society of American Foresters, licensed and insured for controlled burns and an N.C. licensed forest pesticide and herbicide applicator, and that the firm finds state and federal cost-share funding for clients and files the applications on their behalf. He also sells real estate through Realty One Group Results. As described on evergreenforestry.com, read 23 September 2026.
Ridgerunner Forestry, LLC is based at Pilot, just over the Virginia line, and the directory records coverage of twenty-six North Carolina counties across the northern piedmont and the northwestern mountains, from Rockingham, Caswell, Person and Granville along the border west through Surry and Wilkes to Ashe, Watauga and Avery. The firm's own site carries the line Since 1988 and says that since its beginning Ridgerunner has strived to provide a variety of professional services to private landowners and industry clients alike, while maintaining high ethical standards with a focus on customer service. It describes its audience as forest landowners in the southeast and beyond, and names timber appraisal and sales, wildlife management and conservation easements among the matters it covers for them. Its own pages add timber cruising, stewardship plans, mapping, the tax implications of forest ownership, and a projects page showing the outcome of recent work. Landowners are invited to call or email with any questions about the management of their forestland. As described on ridgerunnerforestry.com, read 22 September 2026.
Taylor Forestry is an independent consulting firm at Hickory, and the directory records coverage of thirty-three counties across the western third of North Carolina, from the Charlotte-area piedmont and the foothills up into Watauga, Ashe, Avery and Mitchell. The firm says it manages woodlands and markets forest products for landowners, helping them realize their goals through the application of sound forest management practices. Ray Taylor, a graduate of the School of Forestry at NC State University, founded the business in 1992 after working as a procurement forester and later as an assistant district forester for the NC Forest Service, and practises as a registered forester in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The site sets out its timber sale work step by step, from a free initial onsite consultation and the setting of landowner goals including income tax impact, through harvest planning, sale boundaries, inventory and appraisal, marketing to buyers, a sealed bid or negotiated sale, closing, monitoring of logging and coordination of reforestation. Forest management work covers property tax reduction plans, timber inventory, hardwood and pine management, reforestation, boundary line maintenance, wildlife and recreational management, and the NC Landowner Protection Act. As described on taylorforestrync.com, read 22 September 2026.
Registration number 715 sits in the first quarter of the 178 registrations on the state register, so this is a long-standing entry. Coverage is eighteen counties in the western piedmont — the Charlotte and Gastonia side of the state, up through Iredell and Davie into the Triad, and west to Rutherford and Polk. Appraisal, cruising and sale administration are all listed, with timber stand improvement, herbicide application and urban forestry alongside. One registered forester; no website or associations on file.
Registration number 208 is the fifth-oldest on the state register, a tenure very few listings can match. Thirty-six counties spread across the central piedmont, the Sandhills and the inner coastal plain, from Rockingham and Caswell on the Virginia line down to Scotland and Robeson. Eleven services, a focused list: appraisal, cruise and sale administration, reforestation, timber stand improvement, herbicide application, forest real estate and stewardship plans.
A piedmont practice with a long reach east — thirty-one counties from Surry and Stokes on the Virginia line, across the Triad and the Triangle, then out through Johnston and Wayne to Wilson, with Robeson and Cumberland picked up to the south. Logging engineering sits on the service list next to the appraisal, cruise and sale administration a sale runs on, which is the difference between marking a stand and working out how to get equipment onto it. Fourteen services in total. The register lists no association membership and no website.
Alliance Forestry, Inc. is a forestry consulting business based in Dallas, North Carolina. The Dallas office, led by Brian Medlock, covers Western NC, SC, and VA. The company also has a branch in Tarboro, North Carolina, run by Mike Wittig, covering Eastern NC, SC, and VA. On the consulting side, the work includes timber sales, appraisals, inventories, forest management plans including Forest Stewardship plans, boundary line maintenance, and forest taxation assistance. The staff includes NC Registered Foresters, and the business holds N.C. Registered Forester #1124. They also do land clearing and site work, custom herbicide applications for utility companies managing rights-of-way, and forestry herbicide work by aerial, ground, and backpack methods, as licensed pesticide applicators in NC, SC, and VA. On the planting side, they put in over a million seedlings a year, including loblolly pine, longleaf pine, and a variety of hardwood species, with guidance on genetics, planting density, and seedling type. Mapping is handled through GIS and GPS work, and "Acreage determinations can be made in the office or the field." Wildlife management services cover food plots, prescribed burning, and removal of nuisance animals including beavers. This suits a landowner who wants one outfit that can run a timber sale, handle the paperwork and mapping, and also come back later for planting or herbicide work, rather than hiring out each piece separately. From allianceforestry.com, read 10 October 2026.
Registration number 335 puts this firm's oldest credential ninth-oldest of the 178 registrations on the state register — one of the longest tenures in North Carolina consulting forestry. Two registered foresters, twenty-seven counties covering the southern and central piedmont from Mecklenburg and Gaston up through the Triad, with the Sandhills along the bottom edge. Seventeen services: urban forestry, forest taxation and environmental impact statements on top of the appraisal, cruise and sale-administration trio. Memberships in ACF, SAF, the N.C. Forestry Association and the Forest Landowners Association — an unusually deep set.
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.
Rudd Forestry, PLLC works out of Raleigh, and the directory records coverage of forty-six counties reaching from the Rockingham and Forsyth line east through the Triangle out to Pitt, Onslow and Pender. The firm says its aim is to help landowners achieve their goals for their forestland, and that it works in North Carolina and Virginia. Its services page describes tailored management plans for forest health and long-term sustainability, timber appraisal covering volume, value and forest health, planning and management of timber sales and harvests, site-specific reforestation, boundary line marking, property security against trespassing, theft and poaching, GIS mapping, hunt lease management, wildlife habitat improvement, forest conservation, outdoor recreation planning, and help buying and selling North Carolina farms and timberland. Owner Thomas Rudd holds a forest management degree from North Carolina State University and states sixteen years as a consulting forester and fourteen as a licensed North Carolina real estate agent, together with arborist certification, a drone certification and standing as a certified tree farm inspector. As described on ruddforestry.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.
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.
The office is over the state line in Rock Hill, South Carolina, but the coverage is anything but local — 48 North Carolina counties, from Union and Mecklenburg up through the Triad and out west as far as Madison, Mitchell and Yancey. Appraisal, cruising and sale administration are all recorded, the set needed to run a competitive sale end to end. ACF membership marks this as full-time consulting work. Twelve services in total; no website on the register.
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.
Wildwood Consulting, PLLC is a forestry consulting outfit based in Asheville, North Carolina. They work for the landowner, not the mill or the logger, helping with forest management plans, timber inventory and appraisal, timber basis work for tax purposes, timber sales and harvest oversight, silvicultural treatments, and urban forestry. Two of their staff are N.C. Registered Foresters. Beyond those core jobs, their broader services list runs to timber cruises, reforestation, timber stand improvement, prescribed burning, forest real estate, recreation management, wetland delineation, and wildlife management, among others. They cover a wide stretch of western North Carolina and a long list of counties, from Alexander and Ashe down through Henderson and Transylvania to Yancey, plus work in east Tennessee, the upstate of South Carolina, and southwestern Virginia. There's no stated minimum acreage, but the smallest job they describe is a 109 acre controlled burn at Green River Preserve, so that gives a sense of the scale they're used to working at. Their own words put the point plainly: they aim to "know the value of your assets before you make a decision" and to "get the best price for your timber and the best value out of any harvest activity." This fits a landowner with a sizable tract, especially one in or near the western Carolina mountains, who wants a forester handling the planning and the sale, not just a logger showing up with a truck. From wildwood-consulting.com, read 10 October 2026.
Registration 513 sits seventeenth-oldest on the state register, and the firm holds Association of Consulting Foresters membership — ACF admits full-time consultants only, so it signals this is the business rather than a sideline. The office is in Blythewood, South Carolina, but the NC Forest Service register credits sixty-two North Carolina counties: the mountains, effectively the whole piedmont, the sandhills and the southeastern coast. Fourteen services, with appraisal, cruising and sale administration at the center and forest taxation, forest real estate and stewardship planning around them.
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.
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.
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.
This entry is unusual: a national conservation organization holding a North Carolina registration, with the office on file in Indianapolis, Indiana, and twenty-five counties listed across the western piedmont and the northwestern mountains. The service list is short and specific — management plans, stand improvement, forest real estate, stewardship plans, and all three timber-sale services from appraisal through to sale administration. Both ACF and SAF memberships are recorded. Seven services is among the narrowest on the register, so anything outside that set would have to come from elsewhere.
The N.C. Forest Service register carries Dougherty & Dougherty across sixty-three North Carolina counties, foothills through piedmont to coastal plain — but the firm is run from Georgia. The register address is a PO box in Athens, Georgia, and the North Carolina connection is Derek Dougherty's registration, number 1029, rather than a North Carolina office. Trading as Progressive Forestry, the firm's site states that it “manages forest land for private forest landowners in the Southeastern US” with staff it describes as “college-educated, field-trained, and licensed forestry professionals,” and says its experience spans forest management, real estate investment, research and tree breeding. Its timberland management page sets the services out in detail: property and annual inspections, timber inventory reported in tons, cords or thousand board feet by species and product class, timber appraisal, boundary line marking, prescribed understory burning, plantation establishment, seed source selection, mid-rotation work, GIS mapping, growth and yield modelling, harvest scheduling and forest investment analysis. It also answers a question the register leaves open. The register credits the firm with appraisal and cruising but not with sale administration; the site says the firm prepares and oversees the marketing and harvest itself, by negotiation or sealed bid, with lump-sum or per-unit payment and clear-cut, select-cut or thinning harvests, including logging inspections and its own timber security and tracking system. The firm states it is a certified Forest Stewardship Program plan writer in North Carolina. Hardwood is treated as a speciality: the site argues the South's hardwood resource sits “well below its potential” after a history of high-grading, and describes a system of site and stand evaluation aimed at regular production of grade hardwood. Species named across the site include loblolly, longleaf and slash pine, green ash, yellow poplar and eucalyptus. A consultation line covers audits, seedling advice and expert witness work on timber trespass overcuts and failed plantations. No founding year is published. As described on progressiveforestry.com, read 23 September 2026.
Peachland is the mill that takes what other yards turn away - gum, hickory, elm, hackberry and sycamore - cutting soft hardwoods into industrial timbers, cross ties and switch ties at a reported 16,000 to 18,000 board feet an hour. Edwards acquired the site in 2012; the parent company started in 1969 out of a dirt-floor chicken house in Marshville and now runs six North Carolina locations along with its own timber company and trucking arm. It is second-generation family owned and FSC certified company-wide. The NC Forest Service's Anson County register lists the Peachland mill as buying standing timber, hardwood grade logs, miscellaneous hardwood sawlogs and pine sawlogs, so a landowner sitting on a mixed, low-grade hardwood stand has a genuine outlet here.
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.
Piedmont Timber - Full Service Timber Company is a logging contractor in Greensboro, North Carolina. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a timber buyer and a consulting forester. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills in Forsyth County (1)
This buyer is based in Forsyth County. Being close matters: hauling is one of the biggest costs taken out of your check.
W.E.F. Logging is a timber buyer in Winston Salem, 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 10 counties, including Davidson, Davie, Forsyth and Guilford. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills Nearby (46)
Businesses that buy, cut or mill timber in Forsyth County, working from a nearby town.
Appalachian Walnut Co. LLC is a sawmill and timber buyer in Lincolnton, North Carolina. They buy standing timber and logs, and they sell lumber, both green and kiln dried. They're looking for mature walnut and white oak, specifically. On the timber side, they buy standing tracts of hardwood where those species are present. They also buy walnut and white oak logs directly, and say they do this "in a 250 mile radius of our mill," so they reach well past Lincoln County if the wood is right. On the lumber side, they sell both retail and wholesale, green or kiln dried, and can ship it out LTL, even internationally, or you can pick it up yourself. There's no stated minimum acreage or tract size here, so if you've got a smaller property with a good stand of walnut or white oak on it, it may still be worth a call. Their own words say they "buy and select harvest logs and focus on quality not quantity when we manufacture lumber," which tells you they're picky about what they take rather than looking to clear everything. This fits a landowner who has walnut or white oak worth something, maybe just a pocket of good trees rather than a whole tract, and wants a buyer who deals in those species specifically rather than general logging. From appalachianwalnut.com, read 10 October 2026.
Billy Speaks & Sons Logging is a timber buyer in Hamptonville, 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 16 counties, including Alexander, Cabarrus, Caldwell and Catawba. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Behind the PO Box mailing address is a working mill. The Forest Products Locator and an OSHA inspection record independently place Blue Ox at 190 Sawmill Road in Stoneville and classify it as an operating sawmill (NAICS 321113) cutting both softwood and hardwood. Its buying list is wider than most Piedmont mills — the NC Forest Service register adds sweetgum, black and tupelo gum, beech and ash to the usual oaks, poplar and pine, which matters on a mixed tract where odd-species stems otherwise get left standing. It buys in Stokes County as well as Rockingham. The only regulatory history found is a planned OSHA safety inspection opened in July 2013 and closed that September with one serious and six other violations, settled informally for $325.
Blue Ridge Lumber is a timber buyer in Yadkinville, 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.
BTC- Byrd's Timber Company is a timber buyer in Boone, 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 22 counties, including Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe and Avery. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Carolina Wood Enterprises, Inc. is a timber buyer in Siler City, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: S Yellow Pine. Products: Standing Timber and Sawlogs. It covers 13 counties, including Alamance, Caswell, Chatham and Durham. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Catawba Valley Timber Co., Inc. is a timber buyer in Vale, 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, Chip-N-Saw Logs, Ply or Veneer Logs, Pulpwood, Poles, Posts and Chips. It covers 19 counties, including Alexander, Alleghany, Burke and Caldwell. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Columbia Forest Products Inc is a mill in Old Fort, North Carolina. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a timber buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Davie Lumber & Logging Inc. is a timber buyer in Mocksville, 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 Chips. It covers Davidson, Davie, Forsyth and Iredell counties. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Now trading as Kindled Provisions — Hunt Forest Resources states flatly that “East Coast Firewood, LLC is now Kindled Provisions” — this Moncure operation produces kiln-dried firewood rather than sawn products. The wood is USDA-certified pest- and mold-spore-free, which is what allows it to be moved across state lines and into parks and campgrounds. Production runs on a Multitek firewood processor and a Pezzolato vertical splitter, with quality checked using digital moisture readers on random samples, and the species offered include cherry, oak, hickory and Southern Appalachian hardwoods. The business shares its address and phone with Hunt's Pittsboro Woodyard and ships across the southeastern United States.
East Coast Timberland Inc. is a timber buyer in Nashville, 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 Chips. It covers 40 counties, including Beaufort, Bertie, Carteret and Chatham. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Elliott's Custom Saw Mill is a mill in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Falling Oak Timber LLC, in Lexington, North Carolina, is a buyer of standing timber that also runs its own logging crews. By its own words, "We are buyers of standing timber." They serve Davidson County. The work covers timber clearing, clear cut, select cut, chipping, excavating, reforestation, and management plans, with loblolly pine named as a species they handle. They note they have "logging crews to cut large acres and small acres," so no tract is too small or too big for them to look at. A sale works like this: they can't price timber over the phone. Someone comes out to assess the timbered area and gives a lump sum price based on the harvest method you want. There's no charge for that evaluation and no obligation to sell. If you go ahead, they pay in full when the timber contract is signed and notarized, and that date starts the clock on the harvest, with most timber deeds running 24 months. They also mention following forestry guidelines around creeks, using bridge timbers and water bars to limit erosion, and they say they "treat the landowner's property as if it were our own." This fits a Davidson County landowner who wants one company to evaluate, buy, and log the timber start to finish, including excavating work, without a separate forester and a separate logging outfit to coordinate. From fallingoaktimberllc.com, read 10 October 2026.
A Stoneville timber buyer that appears on both the Rockingham and Stokes county NC Forest Service buyer registers. The register records it as buying all hardwood and all softwood species as standing timber, sawlogs, pulpwood and chips — broader than the mixed-hardwood entry this listing was originally built from. Beyond the state register, searches found no website, no Facebook page, no reviews and no NC Secretary of State corporate record under this name.
Felts Land & Timber, LLC is a timber buyer in Pinnacle, 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 5 counties, including Forsyth, Rockingham, Stokes and Surry. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Gregory Pallet Co., LLC is a timber buyer in Elon, 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, Chip-N-Saw Logs, Ply or Veneer Logs, Pulpwood, Poles and Lumber. It covers 13 counties, including Alamance, Caswell, Chatham and Davidson. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
H W Culp Lumber Co is a sawmill in New London, North Carolina. The family has run it since 1925, now in its third generation, cutting Southern Yellow Pine Lumber for wholesale customers. This is a mill, not a logging crew that comes out to walk your land. Logs are delivered to the New London site, where they're debarked, sawed, dried, and planed. Besides lumber, the mill turns out wood chips, sawdust, and bark as by-products. The company also handles wood procurement and trucking. Its lumber is heat treated and produced under TPI (Timber Products Inspection) certification, so it carries that grade guarantee: "Our products are certified by Timber Products Inspection to ensure our customers receive the grade quality they expect." Stanly County is named as an area served. This is a long-standing operation, sawing pine lumber "SINCE 1925," and it's a sizeable one, running a single-shift mill and producing a large volume of pine lumber a year for shipment to northern and western markets. For a landowner with Southern Yellow Pine to sell, H W Culp Lumber Co is worth knowing as a mill with deep roots in New London and a certification that backs up the grade of lumber it cuts, though it's set up to deal in wood procurement and volume rather than walking a small tract with you. From culplumber.com, read 10 October 2026.
High Rock Forest Products, Inc. is a timber buyer in Lexington, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: Yellow-Poplar, Sweetgum, Soft Maple, Red Oak, White Oak, Hickory, Ash and Black/Tupelo Gum. Products: Standing Timber, Sawlogs and Ply or Veneer Logs. It covers 7 counties, including Davidson, Davie, Forsyth and Guilford. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Hopkins Lumber Contractors is a timber buyer based in Stuart, Virginia, serving North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: S Yellow Pine, E White Pine, Ash, Basswood, Beech, Black Gum, Black Locust and Cherry. Products: Standing Timber, Sawlogs, Pulpwood and Sawdust. It covers 7 counties, including Caswell, Forsyth, Guilford and Person. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Hopkins Lumber Contractors is a timber business based in Ridgeway, North Carolina. It is listed under timber buyers, and the products it lists are standing timber, sawlogs, pulpwood and sawdust. That covers trees still standing in the woods, the larger logs a sawmill cuts into boards, and the smaller wood that goes to pulp. The species it handles are southern yellow pine, eastern white pine, ash, basswood, beech, black gum, black locust, cherry, hickory, soft maple, red oak, white oak, sweetgum, walnut and yellow poplar. The counties it serves are Caswell, Forsyth, Guilford, Person, Rockingham, Stokes and Surry. It suits a landowner in one of those seven counties who has walnut, cherry, white oak or yellow poplar standing and wants one business to take the sawlogs, pulpwood and sawdust along with the standing trees. From hopkinslumber.com, read 17 October 2026.
Kelly Hedrick Lumber is a mill in Lexington, North Carolina. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Ken Horton Logging, LLC is a timber buyer in Mount Airy, 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 5 counties, including Alleghany, Forsyth, Stokes and Surry. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Marlin Krider Land & Timber, Inc is a timber buyer in Todd, 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 8 counties, including Alleghany, Ashe, Avery and Caldwell. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
McDowell Lumber & Pallet Co., Inc. is a sawmill and pallet manufacturer in Asheboro, North Carolina. Alongside running the mill, they buy standing timber, logs, and land, so a landowner can go straight to the people who will actually mill the wood. They work in hardwoods: red oak, white oak, poplar, hickory, gum, ash, sycamore, maple, beech, and mixed hardwoods. Beyond buying timber, their listed work covers timber purchasing and evaluation, forest management planning, logging assistance, reforestation, land management consultation, hardwood sawmilling, kiln drying, surfacing and planing, custom pallet design, heat treating for export, and their own trucking. They describe themselves plainly as a company that will "buy land, timber, and logs," and they also sell mulch, chips, and sawdust locally by the full trailer load. They serve Randolph, Chatham, Davidson, Davie, Montgomery, Forsyth, Iredell, Rowan, Guilford, Rockingham, and Mecklenburg counties. The company traces back to 1974, when Tony McDowell started out scouting timber with "a lumberjack's eye," and it has grown from that single portable saw into a mill that now ships lumber well beyond the Carolinas. This fits a landowner in that stretch of central North Carolina who wants to deal with a mill that buys its own timber and logs, rather than a broker standing between the woods and the saw. From mcdowelllumberco.com, read 10 October 2026.
One of the quieter names on the NC Forest Service timber buyer register for Randolph County, buying standing timber, sawlogs and pulpwood across a ten-county range that reaches Rowan, Davie, Guilford and Forsyth. Research turned up nothing beyond that register entry — no website, no directory listing, no reviews, no founding date, nothing on the phone number or street address. For a landowner that means the register is the only public record, and any question about scale, equipment or what the mill is currently taking has to be asked directly.
NCT Associates, LLC is a timber buyer in Lincolnton, 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 19 counties, including Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus and Caldwell. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Pine State Group, Inc. is a timber buyer in Eden, 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 Chips. It covers 7 counties, including Alamance, Caswell, Forsyth and Guilford. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Ridge Road Wood Products, Inc. is a timber buyer in Boone, 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 6 counties, including Forsyth, Rockingham, Stokes and Surry. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
S & H Lumber Co is a mill in Walnut Cove, North Carolina. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Shaver Wood Products is a lumber yard and sawmill based in Cleveland, North Carolina. It works out of Iredell County and also serves landowners in Rowan County. In the directory it turns up under Alexander County as well. The main line of work here is sawmilling, with some woodworking and retail lumber sales on the side. The services listed are the lumber yard itself, the saw mill, and "custom dimensions and cuts" for buyers who need lumber cut to a particular size rather than off the shelf. Shaver Wood Products has been doing this work for "over 46 years" in the area, so it's not a new operation. There's no mention of standing timber buying, logging, or harvesting, so this looks like a place to sell logs or buy finished and custom-cut lumber rather than a service that comes out and cuts your trees for you. No species are named, and there's no credential or certification listed. If you're a landowner with a tract of trees looking for someone to walk it and make an offer on standing timber, this isn't described as that kind of operation. But if you've already got logs, or you want lumber milled to your own dimensions for a building or woodworking project, Shaver Wood Products is set up for that kind of work in Iredell and Rowan counties. From shaverwoodproducts.com, read 10 October 2026.
Southern Veneer Specialty is a timber buyer in Moncure, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: S Yellow Pine. Products: Ply or Veneer Logs. It covers 48 counties, including Alamance, Anson, Beaufort and Bertie. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
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.
Stone Timber Products, Inc. is a timber buyer in Sims, 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 41 counties, including Alamance, Anson, Caswell and Chatham. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Incorporated in October 1997 and still listed Current-Active with the NC Secretary of State, Stoneville Lumber holds something no other buyer in the Stoneville cluster does: a USDA APHIS-PPQ compliance agreement authorising it to receive logs from Canadian areas under gypsy moth quarantine, one of only 52 North Carolina facilities on that federal list. Its product range on the NC Forest Service register is the broadest around — standing timber, sawlogs, chip-n-saw, pulpwood, veneer and plywood logs, sawdust, chips and finished lumber — covering both what comes off a tract and what comes out of a mill. It is also one of the few Piedmont buyers that lists black walnut and cherry, two high-value specialty hardwoods most of its neighbours do not name. No website, Facebook page or published reviews were found.
T & L Development, LLC is a timber buyer based in Stuart, Virginia, serving North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: S Yellow Pine, E White Pine, Hemlock, Ash, Basswood, Beech, Black Gum and Black Locust. Products: Standing Timber and Sawlogs. It covers 7 counties, including Caldwell, Forsyth, Guilford and Person. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Tarheel Sawmill is a mill in Forsyth County, North Carolina. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Tate Logging is a timber buyer in Lowgap, 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 Firewood. It covers Forsyth, Stokes, Surry and Yadkin counties. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Thomas Carter Logging is a timber buyer in Reidsville, 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 7 counties, including Alamance, Caswell, Forsyth and Guilford. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Timbco, LLC is a timber procurement company based in Morrisville, North Carolina. It operates throughout Central North Carolina, Southside Virginia, and the Sandhills of North Carolina, buying standing timber and arranging the harvest. Its work covers clear cutting, first and second thinning of pine plantations, shelter-wood harvests, wildlife habitat enhancement, development harvests, and reforestation or replanting. Its product list runs from standing timber to sawlogs, chip-n-saw, pulpwood, ply or veneer logs, and poles, in both hardwoods and softwoods. The minimum is 15 acres of harvestable timber, because the equipment is large and costly to move. A visit to look at your timber is free for tracts of 15 acres or more, and you are under no obligation to sell. Timbco, LLC prefers 24 month contracts, which allow flexibility in scheduling harvests if ground or market conditions turn adverse. Each logging contractor it uses carries Workers Compensation and General Liability Insurance, which the company requires before anyone harvests for it. Phillip Smith is an NC Registered Forester. Founders Jason Wallace and Phillip Smith have over 40 years of combined experience in the North Carolina and Virginia timber industry, and the firm belongs to the North Carolina and Virginia Forestry Associations. It has offices in Morrisville, South Boston, Rocky Mount, and Greensboro. Its approach is "hands on" from the first landowner meeting through reforestation. Timbco, LLC suits a landowner with at least 15 acres of harvestable timber in Central North Carolina, Southside Virginia, or the Sandhills who wants a forester involved from the first visit through replanting. From timbcollc.com, read 10 October 2026.
Triple N Lumber Co., LLC is a timber buyer in Eden, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: All Hardwoods and All Softwoods. Products: Sawlogs, Standing Timber, Pulpwood and Chips. It covers 7 counties, including Alamance, Caswell, Forsyth and Guilford. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Uwharrie Lumber Co. is a timber buyer and mill based in Troy, North Carolina. They buy stumpage, sawlogs, and pulpwood, and they run a hardwood sawmill too, so they can take wood from standing timber through to sawn lumber. They work with Red Oak, White Oak, Yellow-Poplar, Hickory, and Mixed Hardwoods. They serve a wide stretch of counties: Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham, Cleveland, Cumberland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, and Forsyth. There's no stated minimum acreage, and no clear word on how small a job they'll take on, so if you're sitting on a small lot it's worth a call to ask directly rather than guessing. This fits a landowner in or near that stretch of counties who has hardwood timber to sell, whether standing or cut, and wants someone who both buys logs and mills them. From uwharrielumber.com, read 10 October 2026.
W & L Land Associates is a timber buyer in Union Grove, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: SYP, E White Pine, Ash, Beech, Black Locust, Cherry, Hickory and Soft Maple. Products: Standing Timber, Sawlogs, Chip-n-Saw, Pulpwood, Veneer & Plylogs, Sawdust, Shavings and Chips. It covers 18 counties, including Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus and Caldwell. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Wood Forest Resources, LLC is a timber buyer in Wilson, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: Southern Yellow Pine, Ash, Red Oak, White Oak, Hickory, Sweetgum and Yellow Poplar. Products: Standing Timber, Sawlogs and Pulpwood. It covers 69 counties, including Alamance, Anson, Beaufort and Bertie. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Questions landowners ask
How many timber buyers and foresters serve Forsyth County?
88 businesses are listed for Forsyth County: 41 consulting foresters and 47 buyers, loggers and mills. 3 of them have offices in the county.
How much is my timber worth in Forsyth 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 Forsyth 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 Forsyth County?
No price series is published for Forsyth 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 Forsyth County come from the North Carolina Forest Service register, revised 06-Apr-26. The register is updated quarterly.