Gelbert, Fullbright & Randolph Forestry Consultants
About Gelbert, Fullbright & Randolph Forestry Consultants
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.
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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Person, Warren, Alamance, Wayne, Caswell, Moore, Cumberland, Greene, Sampson, Edgecombe, Randolph, Guilford, Halifax, Hoke, Lenoir, Duplin, Pitt, Rockingham, Northampton, Montgomery, Bladen, Jones, Beaufort, Martin, Robeson, Scotland, Richmond, Forsyth, Davidson, Stanly, Bertie, Pender, Stokes, Anson, Craven, Hertford, Onslow, Rowan, Columbus, Washington, Davie, Gates, Chowan, Yadkin, Pamlico, New Hanover, Surry, Perquimans, Brunswick, Tyrrell, Hyde, Carteret, Pasquotank, Camden, Alleghany, Currituck, Dare, McDowell, Rutherford, Mitchell, Polk, Yancey, Henderson, Madison, Transylvania, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain, Graham, Clay, Cherokee
Gelbert, Fullbright & Randolph Forestry Consultants
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Registered foresters
Member of
Association of Consulting Foresters
Society of American Foresters