Gyekis FORESTRY
About Gyekis FORESTRY
Gyekis Forestry is run by Kerry Gyekis, a consultant forester based in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, working in Tioga County. A consultant forester is a graduate forester whose independent business provides forestry services to individual landowners, and this one is not tied to any sawmill or timber buyer. The work covers timber volume estimates, inventories, appraisals, marketing and sales, forest management, tree planting, timber stand improvement, trespass appraisals, wind damage assessment, forestland investment, and taxation analysis. Species handled include black cherry, black locust, oak, northern hardwood, maple, sugar maple, beech, birch, white pine, and hemlock. If you're thinking about a timber sale, Kerry will walk the land with you first and explain what he sees and recommends, at no cost. If you go ahead, the fee is usually 7% of the gross bid. For that, he does a full cruise and marking of the timber, writes a prospectus with species volumes, totals, and maps, sends it to prospective bidders, holds a tour of the sale area, opens sealed bids, advises on acceptance, writes the contract, and manages it through the harvest. He describes the goal plainly: "Market the timber to its highest price and best use." If your priorities aren't settled yet, he'll suggest a long-term land management plan first, with costs set after he's walked the property. This suits a landowner in Tioga County who wants someone to run the whole sale process, from marking the timber to writing the contract, rather than handling it alone. From theforester.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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