F&W Forestry Services, Inc.
This firm's office is in Charlottesville, VA, outside North Carolina. It appears here because the North Carolina forestry register lists it as working 64 North Carolina counties. Worth asking how far they'll travel for a tract your size.
About F&W Forestry Services, Inc.
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.
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? →
runs the sale and handles the contract
Everything they're registered for
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Counties covered
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Moore, Caswell, Nash, Wilson, Cumberland, Randolph, Warren, Wayne, Guilford, Hoke, Sampson, Rockingham, Montgomery, Greene, Edgecombe, Duplin, Richmond, Lenoir, Halifax, Scotland, Forsyth, Davidson, Bladen, Robeson, Stanly, Pitt, Northampton, Stokes, Anson, Jones, Rowan, Davie, Beaufort, Martin, Pender, Cabarrus, Columbus, Yadkin, Bertie, Onslow, Craven, Surry, Union, Hertford, New Hanover, Gates, Chowan, Brunswick, Perquimans, Pasquotank, Camden, Currituck
F&W Forestry Services, Inc.
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Registered foresters
Member of
Association of Consulting Foresters
Society of American Foresters