Timber Buyers & Forestry Professionals in Genesee, PA

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.