Graves Consulting Forestry & Land Management LLC
About Graves Consulting Forestry & Land Management LLC
Graves Consulting Forestry & Land Management LLC is a one-person forest consulting firm out of Shinglehouse, Pennsylvania. The owner works as an independent consultant on behalf of landowners, not for a mill or a logging crew, and covers Potter County along with other parts of Pennsylvania and New York. The work covers timber sales, timber appraisals, timber stand improvement, wildlife and land management, property line maintenance, and sugarbush management. For a timber sale, the process starts by sitting down to hear the landowner's goals, then marking and tallying the trees with paint, measuring diameter and height of the merchantable logs, and marking pulpwood and undesirable trees at the same time. That tally becomes a bid prospectus sent out to several mills and private loggers, and the landowner picks the "highest responsible bidder." A contract is drawn up, and the sale is overseen from start to finish with inspections along the way and a check on clean-up. Timber appraisals can be done by a full cruise of every tree or by a plot cruise, for reasons like a property sale, taxes, or estate planning. Timber stand improvement is described as "comparable to weeding a garden," thinning out the weaker trees so the better ones grow faster. The owner has worked in timber buying and sawmill supply for more than 30 years before starting this firm in 2024, with an associate degree in forest management from Pennsylvania College of Technology. This fits a landowner in Potter County or nearby who wants one person handling a timber sale from the first walk in the woods through the final clean-up, or who also wants help with a sugarbush or a hunting property on the side. From gravesforestryconsulting.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.
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