Selling Timber in Wilkes County, NC

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.

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.

Church & Church Lumber Co is a family-owned sawmill in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. They cut and dry their own lumber, buy timber, run logging crews, and give forestry advice, so a landowner can deal with one outfit for the whole job instead of juggling several. They take on timber appraisal, harvest planning, clear cutting, selective harvesting, and thinning, then handle the sale, the marketing, and the transportation themselves. Species they work with include white oak, red oak, hickory, ash, beech, cherry, walnut, and yellow poplar. They say they recommend getting "at least three bids on a clearly defined timber boundary" if you deal directly with timber buyers, and to only sell timber with a written timber sale agreement, which is worth keeping in mind even if you end up going with them. Their own mill has 400,000 board feet of dry kiln capacity, and they dry and prepare lumber for both domestic and export markets. Church & Church Lumber Co serves Wilkes County. They say landowners with over ten acres are a good fit for exploring a timber harvest. The company has been family-owned for four generations. This one suits a landowner in Wilkes County with a tract of some size who wants a single company to appraise, cut, haul, and sell the timber, rather than hiring separate specialists for each step. From churchandchurchlumber.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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

Based over the line in Johnson City, Tennessee, and covering twenty-four counties in the North Carolina mountains — Cherokee, Clay and Graham in the far southwest, up through Buncombe and Madison to Ashe and Alleghany. The register lists five services and no more: management plans, timber appraisal, cruising, sale administration and logging engineering. That is a timber sale specialist's list, and logging engineering earns its place on steep ground. Nothing else is offered, so anything beyond the sale would need another firm.

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.

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.

Mountain work, essentially. Twenty-two counties running from Cherokee and Clay in the far southwest across the Blue Ridge to Watauga, Ashe and Wilkes, with a foothill edge in Catawba, McDowell, Polk and Rutherford. Steep ground is its own problem, and the register credits this firm with logging engineering alongside the appraisal, cruising and sale administration a landowner needs to put timber on the market. Fourteen services in total, including forest taxation and recreation management. No website is listed.

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.

Western North Carolina, and only western North Carolina: twenty-eight counties from Cherokee and Graham in the far southwest, up through Buncombe and Madison, out to Ashe and Alleghany and down the foothills to Cleveland and Gaston. Fifteen services, an above-average list, and an unusual mix — urban forestry and wetland delineation alongside appraisal, cruising and sale administration. Herbicide application and timber stand improvement are listed too, which is the maintenance side of owning mountain woodland rather than the selling side. One thing the register does not say: this is not a commercial consulting firm. EcoForesters — the organisation writes its name as one word — describes itself as a non-profit professional forestry organisation dedicated to conserving and restoring Appalachian forests through education and stewardship, founded in 2015, and says its methods emphasise sound ecological management over other profit and production driven forest management approaches. It draws the distinction itself: where a commercial forester generally recommends the course of action yielding the most profit, EcoForesters says it will present all reasonable options and then recommend the one that most effectively conserves and restores the forest for current and future generations, while remaining economically viable and generating revenue to the landowner. What it offers landowners is forestry consultation — forest assessment, inventory and appraisal, forest stewardship planning, timber management and forest carbon evaluation — alongside conservation and restoration work, invasive species control, conservation easement baseline and monitoring reports, mapping and analysis, and landowner education; on harvesting it favours crown thinning and group selection over the clear-cutting and high-grading it says much of the region's forestland has already been through. Since 2015 it reports writing forest stewardship plans for 120 private forestland owners covering more than 126,000 acres across nineteen Western North Carolina counties and Vermont, and coordinating sustainable timber harvests on fourteen properties totalling more than 878 acres, so the tracts it handles run from very small holdings — it keeps a dedicated page for owners of fewer than ten acres — up to several thousand. A second office sits at Sylva, in Jackson County, alongside the Asheville main office. As described on ecoforesters.org, read 22 September 2026.

Blue Ridge Forestry is a consulting practice based in Asheville, carried on the N.C. Forest Service register for thirty-two counties running from Cherokee and Clay in the far southwest, up through the Blue Ridge and out across the foothills into Mecklenburg and Union. Its site headlines sustainable land management and forestry services and states a mission of providing forest resource expertise to landowners, professionals and companies. The forest management planning page describes basic, comprehensive and stewardship plans alongside harvest, regeneration and wildlife plans, notes that a stewardship plan is a first step toward NRCS cost-share funding or Tree Farm, FSC or SFI certification, and explains the North Carolina present-use-value route, which asks a landowner to hold 20 acres of timberland and file an approved plan prepared by a registered forester. The valuation page says the firm's specialty is quality Appalachian timber and that it also cruises white and southern yellow pine, working across veneer logs, grade saw-logs, pallet logs, plywood and peeler logs, chip-n-saw, pulpwood, firewood, posts and poles, and biomass. Value estimates are produced for acquisition due diligence, IRS timber basis, casualty loss, sale planning, timber theft, insurance claims and estate planning. Tract reconnaissance uses unmanned aerial systems and GIS mapping to size up a tract quickly before deciding whether a full inventory is warranted. On sales the firm says it brokers timber much like a real estate broker and then administers the contract through the harvest with regular inspections, and that it has handled hundreds of timber sales over more than thirty years of implementing plans. Other work includes boundary relocation and marking by GPS, road and trail planning and layout, mapping and GIS, technical training, and harvest inspections as certified American Tree Farm inspectors. As described on blueridgeforestry.com, read 23 September 2026.

This one is not a timber-sale practice. Appraisal, cruising and sale administration are all absent from the register entry. What is listed instead — management plans and mapping, reforestation, stand improvement, logging engineering, Christmas tree management, recreation, urban forestry and stewardship plans — points at growing and tending woodland rather than selling it, across 23 counties covering essentially the whole mountain region, Wilkes and Alleghany west to Cherokee and Clay. It also holds one of the twenty oldest registrations in the state register. A landowner ready to market standing timber should look elsewhere in the directory.

Bishop Forestry and Land, PLLC is a consulting forestry business based in Waynesville, North Carolina, run by Blair Bishop. The work covers the full range a landowner might need: forest management plans and mapping, reforestation, timber stand improvement, timber appraisal, timber cruise and volume estimates, timber sale and contract administration, stewardship plans, wildlife and recreation management, forest taxation, and farm or rural land improvement work like pasture clearing, ponds, and road layout. They also do expert witness and testimony work for land disputes or timber trespass cases, and use drone imagery and GIS mapping for property assessment. On a timber sale, the work covers assessing the timber, "marketing timber to all potential buyers," developing a harvest plan, writing the contract, and staying on top of regulatory compliance, with the stated aim of "ensuring fair market value" for the landowner. They serve western North Carolina, naming a long list of counties: Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cherokee, Clay, Cleveland, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey. Blair Bishop holds an NC Registered Forester license (#1575), is an SAF Certified Forester (#53779), and also holds an NC Real Estate Broker license (#295557). This fits a landowner in the western part of the state who wants one person handling the plan, the sale, and the paperwork, and who also wants someone who can speak to land disputes or boundary questions if they come up. From bishopforestryandland.com, read 10 October 2026.

Natural Resources Management and Mapping Service works from Waynesville across the thirty-two North Carolina counties on its register entry, the mountain west and foothills running east into the Charlotte piedmont, and its home page describes the practice as consulting for western North Carolina woodlands with over 30 years of experience working with woodland owners across the state. The services page says NRMMS has been working with woodland owners across North Carolina since 1993 and specialises in custom forest management plans for tax purposes or forest stewardship, adding that it tailors plans for land ownership groups and associations wanting to better care for shared woodlands and raise their aesthetic and economic value; example stewardship plans, forest tax plans and a homeowners association plan are published for download. A second side of the business serves industry rather than the landowner: geospatial and forest analytics, in particular detailed analysis of feedstock availability and competition, which the firm calls woodbasket analysis, for forest industries, communities and economic developers. Outreach is the third strand, with stated ties to North Carolina Tree Farm, Cooperative Extension and the community college system, and landowner and real estate professional training offered through community college continuing education. Owner James Jeuck, PhD, describes himself as a professional forester and consultant since 1993 with four degrees in forestry and a concentration in natural resource economics; he has taught forestry and geospatial technologies at Haywood Community College for over 15 years, spent more than eight years with NCSU Extension Forestry, and says he has performed over 40 woodbasket site analyses. Three associates are named alongside him: Grizel Gonzalez-Jeuck, in natural resource outreach and project planning since 2012; Gary Fitzgerald, a mechanical engineer with a technical degree in forest management; and Peter Barber, a forest management graduate with eighteen years as a Florida real estate broker behind him. As described on nrmms.com, read 23 September 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.

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.

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.

Hiawassee sits just over the Georgia line from Clay County, and from there this firm's register entry covers thirty-two North Carolina counties: the whole mountain west, the foothills, and east across the western piedmont as far as Mecklenburg and Union. Seventeen services puts it near the top of the range on the register — the full appraise, cruise and sell package, then prescribed burning, environmental impact statements, urban forestry, wildlife management and stewardship planning. The office being out of state is the one thing to weigh.

Land, Farms & Timber, Inc. is based in Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina, and is listed as a forestry consultant, also doing timberland brokerage. Its register entry lists forest management plans and mapping, reforestation, timber stand improvement, timber appraisal, timber cruise and volume estimate, timber sale and contract administration, prescribed burning, forest real estate, recreation management, and utilization and marketing. It states N.C. Registered Forester #586. It serves a long list of North Carolina counties, including Bladen, Columbus, Robeson, Sampson, Duplin, Cumberland, Johnston, Moore, Richmond, Scotland, Stanly, Union, Anson, Montgomery, Chatham, Lee, Harnett, Hoke, Rockingham, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Watauga, Wilkes, Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, New Hanover, Onslow, Pamlico, Pender, Pitt, Tyrrell, and Washington. This fits a landowner in eastern or western North Carolina who wants someone offering both forestry consulting work, such as a timber cruise or a management plan, and help selling forest real estate, under one listing. From advancelandandtimber.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.

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.

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.

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.

Gilkey's representatives are Registered Foresters in both North and South Carolina, an unusual credential for a business filed under timber buyers rather than consultants, and the company offers landowners a free timberland and harvest assessment through a request form on its contact page. Founded in 1954 by Jess Parton and still family-owned, it manufactures hardwood lumber for the furniture, flooring and specialty wood product trades; the Rutherford County economic development office describes it as having grown into an international supplier. Its buying ground is wider than the county list on this page - the company says it purchases standing timber and offers forestry assistance across western North Carolina, upstate South Carolina and eastern Tennessee, and works within state Best Management Practices for water quality.

Appalachian Lumber Company, Inc. runs a sawmill and millwork shop in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, turning hardwood logs into finished wood products. The business describes itself as "creating specialty wood products with precision," and has been doing that work since 1982. They cut and work with ash, red oak, white oak, steamed walnut, hickory, poplar, white pine, and yellow pine, among other species. The output covers hardwood and engineered flooring, moulding and millwork, paneling, stair parts, and furniture parts, with custom orders available, including matching old moulding profiles to a specific species or pattern. To get started, the process is simple: "Call or send us your requirements." The company serves Wilkes County. Its products go out mostly to wholesalers across the country rather than to individual buyers directly, and it ships both on its own truck locally and by LTL freight nationwide. The work is made in the USA, and over the years the mill says it has turned out millions of square feet of flooring, moulding, and other wood products for customers. This fits a landowner who already has logs or sawn lumber and wants it turned into finished flooring, moulding, paneling, or stair parts, not one who is looking for someone to come buy or cut standing timber off the land. From appalachianlumber.net, read 10 October 2026.

Bryant Church Hardwoods Inc is a sawmill and lumber business in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, serving Wilkes County. They cut and process Appalachian hardwoods rather than go out and buy standing timber, so think of them as a mill you might sell logs or lumber to, not a company that will come walk your woods and make you an offer on the trees themselves. Their work centers on ripping and chopping lumber to a customer's specification, package tallies, and export preparation including container booking and loading. They run a dedicated planer mill for custom thickness orders and offer domestic delivery. They say "we are ready to offer lumber in small quantities specific to your project," which tells you they'll work with smaller orders, not just full container loads. Bryant Church Hardwoods has operated since 1953 and calls itself a fourth generation family business. They are a 30 year member of the National Hardwood Lumber Association and also belong to the Appalachian Lumbermen's Club, Appalachian Hardwoods Manufacturers Inc, and the Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association. This fits a landowner who already has logs or sawn lumber to move and wants a long-running Appalachian hardwood mill to process or buy it, rather than someone looking for help pricing or selling standing timber on their acreage. From bchi.com, read 10 October 2026.

Danny Huffman Logging is a timber buyer in Purlear, 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 9 counties, including Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe and Burke. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Hartley Brothers Sawmill Inc is a logging contractor in Boomer, North Carolina. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.

K&A Sawmill is a mill in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Niten Family Logging is a timber buyer in North Wilkesboro, 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. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Select Hardwoods is a mill in Millers Creek, 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.

Sonny Greene Logging is a logging contractor in Millers Creek, North Carolina. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Staley Logging is a timber buyer in Millers Creek, 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. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.

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.

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 Land & Timber Company is a timber buying and logging outfit based in Whittier, North Carolina. They buy standing timber, harvest it, and also handle land sales, working out of Jackson County and now across Western North Carolina, North Georgia, and Eastern Tennessee. Their work covers thinning, select cutting, and clear-cutting, plus timber cruising for appraisals and boundary line marking and recovery. On the land side, their brokers are licensed Real Estate Brokers who help with buying and selling land tracts. For a timber sale, they offer a free consultation first, then you choose how you get paid: lump sum, a one-time payment in full before any harvesting, or unit price, where you're paid as the timber is harvested based on tons or board feet from mill scale tickets. They'll buy standing timber on tracts of 10 acres and up, so this isn't the business for a small lot. They started with one logging crew and one forester and now run 6 logging crews and 3 foresters, which gives you a sense of how much they've grown since beginning in Jackson County. This fits a landowner with at least 10 acres who wants one company to both buy the timber and handle the harvest, and who might also want help with a land sale down the road. From carolinalandandtimber.com, read 10 October 2026.

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.

Charles Harris Logging is a timber buyer in Marion, 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 11 counties, including Avery, Buncombe, 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.

Eddie Moretz Logging is a family-owned and operated lumber and moulding business in Deep Gap, North Carolina. It has been in the lumber industry for over 40 years and has done custom millwork for the past 16. The business sells domestically kiln-dried hardwoods, including cherry, red oak, quarter sawn white oak, walnut, hard maple, poplar and hickory, along with white pine and yellow pine. It also makes custom millwork for cabinets, furniture, trim, paneling, flooring, stair parts and butcher block island slabs. Its range includes heat-treated barn wood, and it processes "recycled" lumber from old barns and buildings. For a landowner, the most useful part is the custom milling. Once trees are removed, the business can convert them into lumber for a home's construction or craft them into decorative mouldings. Lumber you already have can also be milled into a certain product, and the shop will "we will run it for you." It serves the Boone NC area and the Western North Carolina High Country's Watauga, Wilkes, Ashe and Avery counties. It suits a landowner in Watauga, Wilkes, Ashe or Avery county who is building a new home and wants trees from the land turned into lumber or moulding for that home, rather than firewood. From moretzlumberandmoulding.com, read 10 October 2026.

Faith Logging is a timber buyer in Lenoir, 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 11 counties, including Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe and Burke. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.

High Country Lumber & Mulch LLC is a sawmill and timber buyer based in North Wilkesboro, in Wilkes County, North Carolina. It does business as North State Hardwoods, and it's been running for over 20 years. This is a mill operation, not a logging crew that comes out and cuts your trees. They buy standing timber and saw it into lumber on site, working in poplar, white oak, red oak, walnut, cherry, hickory, ash, soft maple, sycamore, eastern white pine, and southern yellow pine. All the logs that come through the mill are sourced within 60 miles of North Wilkesboro, pulling from western North Carolina, northern South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and southern Virginia. If you're a landowner in Wilkes County with timber to sell, the way in is to contact their timber buyer directly about procurement and purchasing. Nothing goes to waste here. The bark gets ground into mulch, sawdust fuels their kilns, and the big logs too large for the grade mill get cut into "live-edge slabs" instead, with thousands in inventory. They describe themselves as "supplying the U.S. and overseas with premium Appalachian hardwoods & eastern white pine" after two decades in the business. This fits a landowner in or near Wilkes County who wants to sell standing hardwood or pine timber to an established local mill, rather than hire out a full logging and land-clearing job. From northstatehardwoods.com, read 10 October 2026.

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.

Parton Lumber Co. is a timber buyer in Lenoir, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: Ash, Cherry, Hickory, Soft Maple, Hard Maple, Red Oak, White Oak and Walnut. Products: Sawlogs and Pulpwood. It covers 8 counties, including Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe and Caldwell. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Precision Logging & Chipping is a timber buyer in Taylorsville, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: All Softwoods and All Hardwoods. Products: Standing Timber, Sawlogs and Pulpwood. It covers 9 counties, including Alexander, Burke, Caldwell and Catawba. 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.

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.

Unlike most crews on the Forest Service register, this Burnsville company hauls its own wood: it holds USDOT number 1009797 as a private interstate carrier of logs, poles, beams and lumber, with six power units and six drivers on the MCS-150 filed in July 2025. It is listed as a member of the Carolina Loggers Association, and the Yancey County buyer list records a broader species range than this listing previously carried, adding basswood, cherry and eastern white pine to the oaks, maples, hickory, walnut, ash and southern yellow pine. The BBB file, opened in September 2018, shows five employees and no rating. No website or published reviews were found.

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.

Still Creek Logging is a logging contractor in Advance, North Carolina. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Suncrest, LLC is a timber and wood products business in Waynesville, North Carolina, also known as Suncrest Mulch & More LLC. It buys timber and also turns wood into mulch and other products on site. On the timber side, the work includes sawlog purchase, pulpwood purchase, chip-n-saw purchase, and timber cruising, covering species like Southern Yellow Pine, Red Oak, White Oak, Yellow-Poplar, and Black Walnut. It serves landowners across Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, and Henderson counties. The mulch and biochar side runs from the Jonathan Creek Rd location, where it also offers bulk mulch delivery and retail yard sales to the public, working with pine and hardwood logs. As the business puts it, "we make our mulch out of repurposed locally harvested logs," and it describes the result as made "simply and sustainably." Mulch delivery is available within the J Creek area only, with a 10 yard minimum. The yard is open to walk-in customers with no appointment needed, and it takes cash, check, or credit card, with a 3.5% charge on card payments. This fits a landowner in its service counties who wants one place that will buy standing timber and also has an outlet for wood by-products like mulch, rather than a straight timber-only outfit. From suncrestmulch.com, read 10 October 2026.

Sutphin Logging Inc 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, Pulpwood and Chips. It covers 5 counties, including Iredell, Stokes, Surry and Wilkes. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Terry Myers Logging is a timber buyer in Union Grove, 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 11 counties, including Alexander, Cabarrus, Caldwell and Catawba. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.

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.

Watts Bumgarner & Brown Inc is a logging contractor in Taylorsville, North Carolina. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Wildcat Land & Timber, LLC is a timber buyer in Lenoir, North Carolina. It appears in the N.C. Forest Service, Companies that Buy Timber, county lists. Species: All Softwoods and All Hardwoods. Products: Standing Timber, Sawlogs, Pulpwood and Woodland. It covers 32 counties, including Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe and Avery. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.