Legacy Land & Wildlife LLC
About Legacy Land & Wildlife LLC
Legacy Land & Wildlife LLC is a forestry consulting business run out of Valley City, Ohio. Dave Duell, the founder, works with landowners on stewardship plans, timber sales, timber appraisals, and timber stand improvement, and the business also takes on timber buying and logging work itself. It serves Medina County and describes its reach as covering Ohio and Pennsylvania. If you're looking to sell standing timber, the process runs in two phases. First comes an initial walk-through, a written management plan, layout and marking of the sale, a bid package sent to buyers, and a bid opening. Once a buyer is chosen, there's a contract, an initial payment, the harvest itself, inspections, cleanup, and a final walkthrough with the landowner. They also do standalone timber appraisals, including for cases of stolen or trespass timber, and help with timber basis work for tax purposes. Dave Duell holds the ACF credential and is described as a Certified Professional Consulting Forester. Their own description says they aim for "a personalized, personal, and professional forestry experience, no matter the scale of your project or need." They also offer woodland stewardship planning tied to programs like CAUV and Ohio Forest Tax Law, timber stand improvement to clear grapevine and invasive species, and wildlife management strategies. This fits a Medina County landowner who wants one person walking the woods with them from the first look through the final cleanup, especially if a tax program like CAUV or OFTL is part of the plan. From legacylandandwildlife.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
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