Forestry Consultants

Hayes Land Services, LLC is based in Edmond, Oklahoma, and works with landowners across Oklahoma and neighboring states. This isn't a logging outfit buying your timber. It's a consulting business built around land management, wildlife habitat, and wildfire work, led by someone with a background in forestry, wildlife habitat management, and wildland fire. The work covers land management plans, wildlife habitat consulting, prescribed burns, habitat management, and hunting property consulting, plus wildfire mitigation. On the wildlife side they talk about deer and turkeys, and about pushing back eastern redcedar where it's taken over. If you hire them for a hunting property consultation, the process runs in steps: they evaluate your vegetation, timber structure, water, access, and what's limiting your deer and turkey habitat, then lay out what's holding the property back, then hand you prioritized, practical recommendations you can actually afford to carry out. They describe their approach as "practical, science-based recommendations" built on local knowledge of Oklahoma land, and say the aim is to "make the land healthier, more productive, and more enjoyable to own and manage." They work with new owners who don't know where to start, families on land passed down for generations, and rural owners worried about wildfire risk. This fits a landowner who wants a management plan or a second opinion on habitat and wildfire risk, not someone looking for a buyer to cut and haul timber off the property. From hayeslandservices.com, read 8 October 2026.

Texas Timber Company LLC buys land and timber and takes on logging and forestry work out of Diana, in East Texas. They work in pine, hardwood, cedar, gum, and cypress, and handle first thinning, second thinning, select harvest, clear cut, real estate aesthetic harvest, mulching, land clearing, and timber management plans. For a timber sale, they pay you one of two ways: a lump sum up front, or weekly payments per ton, with payment for every piece of timber that leaves your property. They say they need at least 10 acres of high quality timber to contract for logging, though a crew they describe specializes in smaller tracts of mature timber running 5 to 20 acres, doing a select harvest to keep a property under a timber management exemption. Mulching and cleanup work is quoted by acreage, day rate, or hourly, with no stated minimum. They say they cover at least a 100 mile radius of the Longview area, naming East Texas, Longview, Diana, Gregg County, and Upshur County, and will consider jobs further out. They describe themselves as "Prologger Certified" and fully insured, with the team citing 50 years of experience collectively. This fits a landowner in East Texas with a mixed pine and hardwood tract of 10 acres or more looking for a straightforward timber sale, or a smaller tract of mature timber if it fits the kind of select harvest they describe doing in Diana. From texastimberco.com, read 8 October 2026.

Daniel B. Lewia is a consulting forester in Antlers, Oklahoma. It appears in the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, Oklahoma Forestry Services, Consulting Foresters of Oklahoma. Credentials on the register: Oklahoma Registered Forester No. 195. A consulting forester works for the landowner, not the buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

James Mitchell runs Professional Tree Care from 2512 N 4th in Enid, Oklahoma. It is a tree care business, set up in 1977 by Jim Mitchell. The work covers tree trimming, tree removal, large and hazardous tree removal, stump grinding, tree planting, and disease and insect control. It also includes cabling and bracing, construction site tree preservation, fertilizing, consulting, storm clean up, and electrical line clearance. The business names Enid, Edmond, Guthrie, and Oklahoma City, with surrounding areas, as its service area. The register lists Garfield County. Jim Mitchell holds a BS in Forestry from Oklahoma State University and is an ISA Certified Arborist, with an ISA Certified Arborist/Utility Specialist credential also listed. The business states it is certified and insured and that it belongs to the Oklahoma Arborist Association, the International Society of Arboriculture, and the Tree Care Industry Association. Jim's forestry training shapes how he works. The business says he "looks at trees differently than other tree trimmers," asking where a tree will be in 10 to 20 years and whether it will be a healthy asset or a problem. This suits a landowner who needs work on trees near a home, a building, or power lines, or who wants a forestry-trained opinion on the trees they plan to keep. From protreecareok.com, read 21 October 2026.

Bill Yemma is a consulting forester in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. It appears in the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, Oklahoma Forestry Services, Consulting Foresters of Oklahoma. Credentials on the register: SAF Certified Forester #1344. A consulting forester works for the landowner, not the buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.