Yadkin Forestry & Realty, PLLC
About Yadkin Forestry & Realty, PLLC
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)
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
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Registered forester
Member of
Association of Consulting Foresters
Society of American Foresters
North Carolina Forestry Association
International Society of Arboriculture