The Johnson Tree Company
This firm's office is in Rapid City, SD, outside North Dakota. It appears here because the North Dakota forestry register lists it as working 0 North Dakota counties. Worth asking how far they'll travel for a tract your size.
About The Johnson Tree Company
The Johnson Tree Company is based in Rapid City and has served South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming, including the Black Hills, since 1980. Most of its work is yard and landscape trees rather than forest tracts: tree sales, tree moving, pruning, transplanting, installation, and removal. The trees it sells and plants include Ponderosa pine, white spruce, Colorado blue spruce, and quaking aspen. Dave Johnson, who runs the company, is a Registered Consulting Arborist (RCA #459) with the American Society of Consulting Arborists and a Certified Arborist (#MW-0340A) with the International Society of Arboriculture. On the consulting side, he works as an expert witness and consultant for forest and tree litigation, and the company offers appraisals, damage and trespass appraisals, insect and disease work, tree planting, and urban and community forestry services. The company describes itself as "not a discount cut-and-run tree 'service'" and says it offers "zero-pressure sales" along with fair prices. This one fits a landowner who needs a tree appraisal, a damage or trespass dispute looked at, or an expert consultant for a forestry or tree-related case, rather than someone looking to sell standing timber or line up a harvest. From johnsontree.com, read 10 October 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? → — not listed
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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