Dougherty & Dougherty Forestry Services, Inc.
This firm's office is in Athens, GA, outside North Carolina. It appears here because the North Carolina forestry register lists it as working 63 North Carolina counties. Worth asking how far they'll travel for a tract your size.
About Dougherty & Dougherty Forestry Services, Inc.
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.
Can they handle a timber sale?
Selling standing timber properly takes three things. Here's what the state register credits this firm with.
Timber AppraisalAn estimate of what your standing timber is worth in dollars, based on how much there is, its quality, and current prices. When you are selling, settling an estate, dividing property, or need a value for taxes or insurance.What does this mean? →
works out what your standing timber is worth
Timber Cruise & Volume EstimateA field measurement of your standing trees — their species, sizes, and quality — that adds up to how much wood you actually have. Before you sell, so you go in knowing roughly what is out there rather than taking a buyer's word for it.What does this mean? →
measures and grades what's actually out there
Timber Sale & Contract AdministrationRunning the sale for you: advertising the timber, taking bids, writing the contract, and overseeing the logging so the agreed terms are met. When you want someone on your side handling the whole sale rather than dealing with buyers and loggers yourself.What does this mean? → — not listed
runs the sale and handles the contract
This firm isn't credited with all three, which doesn't make it a worse forester — plenty specialise in management planning, wildlife or wetlands. It does mean that if your goal is to sell timber, you'd likely need someone else for the part that's missing.
Everything they're registered for
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Counties covered
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Iredell, Wilkes, Anson, Rowan, Stanly, Davie, Yadkin, Richmond, Davidson, Montgomery, Surry, Scotland, Forsyth, Randolph, Moore, Hoke, Stokes, Guilford, Robeson, Lee, Rockingham, Cumberland, Columbus, Alamance, Chatham, Harnett, Bladen, Caswell, Orange, Durham, Brunswick, Sampson, Wake, Person, Johnston, Pender, New Hanover, Granville, Wayne, Duplin, Franklin, Vance, Wilson, Nash, Greene, Onslow, Jones, Edgecombe, Craven, Washington, Tyrrell
Dougherty & Dougherty Forestry Services, Inc.
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