Keeping It Native Land Management
About Keeping It Native Land Management
Keeping It Native Land Management, also known as KINLM, is based in Coolville, Ohio, and works as a forestry consultant, with land clearing and site work on the side. It serves Meigs County. This isn't a timber sale outfit in the usual sense. The work here leans toward forest stand improvement, invasive species treatment, wildlife and pollinator habitat work, prescribed fire consultation, wetland restoration, forestry mulching, and custom management plans, along with things like property boundary marking and pond maintenance. If what you want is someone to walk your woods and help you bring it back into balance rather than just sell the timber off it, this is that kind of help. There's no stated minimum acreage. The business says it will take on anything from a quarter acre to thousands of acres, and its smallest named job is a "1/4 acre in the city." KINLM has operated since 2021. It holds a USDA Technical Service Provider certification, SBA SDVOSB and HUBZone status, Ohio EDGE certification, and a few others, and it describes itself as "fully licensed and insured." Its process is described as a "Step 1 to Step Done approach," built around landowner education from the first visit through follow-up. This suits a landowner whose main concern is restoring habitat, treating invasives, or improving the woods for wildlife and the long haul, not someone looking only for a straight timber sale. From kinlm.com, read 8 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? → — not listed
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
Keeping It Native Land Management
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