Generations Forestry Inc
About Generations Forestry Inc
Generations Forestry Inc is a consulting forestry and timber buying business based in Kane, Pennsylvania. They are independent, which they say matters because it means they "put your needs first" while helping manage your forest and get your products to market. They take on timber appraisal, timber marking, contract logging, and specialty marketing, along with forest management plans, timber stand improvement, regeneration, and stand inventory work. They also handle wildlife and hunting lease management, oil, gas and mineral management, erosion control, and timber security services. They work in saw logs, pulpwood, and veneer logs. When a property is ready for sale, they evaluate the stand, mark timber, prepare bid packages, take competitive bids, award to the highest bidder, then monitor the logging for compliance before releasing the bond. They serve McKean County and describe working across Pennsylvania and New York. Their stated minimum is 1 acre, and they say they deliver solutions "whether you have 1 acre or 100,000 acres of timberland." The company was formed in 2013 by Ken Kane, built from consulting forestry companies he had been part of for 30 years before that. Credentials include membership in the Association of Consulting Foresters and the Society of American Foresters, SFI certification, and licensed pesticide applicator status in Pennsylvania. This fits a landowner who wants one firm to run the whole sale process, bid to cleanup, and who may also want help with wildlife, gas, or mineral questions on the same property. From generationsforestry.com, read 5 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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