Forestland Consultants, Inc.
About Forestland Consultants, Inc.
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.
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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Forestland Consultants, Inc.
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Registered forester
Member of
Association of Consulting Foresters
Society of American Foresters