Josephine County Forestry Department
About Josephine County Forestry Department
Josephine County Forestry Department is a county government office in Grants Pass, Oregon. It runs the county's own forest land, not a private consulting practice for hire in the usual sense, so if you're a landowner in Josephine County this is the place to know for how the county itself handles its timber and land work. The department manages the county's 30,000 acres of forest land for "timber productions, minerals, watershed enhancement and protection, wildlife and recreation." The work that falls under that includes reforestation, wetland reclamation, mine site reclamation, and timber harvest. It covers Josephine County. No species are named, and there's no description of how a sale or job is actually run, so you'd want to call and ask directly what applies to a private parcel versus the county's own ground. The office is at 125 Ringuette St. in Grants Pass, and the director is Dave Streeter. Hours are Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m., closed Friday and county holidays. This fits a landowner in Josephine County who wants to understand how the county handles reforestation, reclamation, and timber harvest on its own land, or who needs a county contact point on forestry matters rather than a private buyer or logger for their own acres. From josephinecounty.gov, read 4 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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Josephine County Forestry Department
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