Springboard Forestry
About Springboard Forestry
Springboard Forestry is a consulting forestry firm based in Timber, Oregon. They work across Oregon and Southern Washington, handling forest management and stewardship planning from the early planning stages all the way through harvest. Their work covers forestland and conservation acquisitions, financial proforma development, forest and road inventory, wood products facility feasibility analysis, wood sourcing advisory, and mapping and GIS analysis. They describe their approach as working "to analyze possible options, plan operations, implement the project, and provide ongoing management and monitoring." Most of their clients are public, non-profit, or large conservation landowners, though they say they work with all types. They mention that if you're responsible for an ownership greater than 80 acres in Oregon or Southern Washington, or if their approach sounds appealing, to reach out. That's not a stated minimum for taking on work, just how they describe the ownership size of the clients they typically hear from. The firm has been developing and applying forest management practices for western forests over the past 15 years. The owner, Ben Hayes, is a professional forester with forestry training from Yale, and the team includes a spatial analyst along with contractors such as GIS professionals, financial analysts, tree planters, and logging contractors. This fits a landowner with a larger holding who wants planning, inventory, or feasibility work done with a long view, rather than someone just looking for a straightforward timber sale on a small tract. From springboardforestry.com, read 11 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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