Gelbert, Fullbright & Randolph Forestry Consultants
This firm's office is in Raleigh, NC, outside South Carolina. It appears here because the South Carolina forestry register lists it as working 31 South Carolina counties. Worth asking how far they'll travel for a tract your size.
About Gelbert, Fullbright & Randolph Forestry Consultants
Gelbert, Fullbright & Randolph Forestry Consultants, which goes by GFR Forestry Consultants on its website, is a forestry firm based in Raleigh. It has served clients since 1964, including individuals, investors, corporations, institutions, and governments. The firm handles timber sales from the first look at the stand through to the bids. It helps you prepare the sale, organizes a sales announcement and marketing plan, and manages the bids. It also does timber volume and value estimates from an on-site inventory, and a timber trespass analysis for boundary problems. It will design "a forest management plan that suits your land and your goals," and its other work includes prescribed burning, reforestation, pulpwood thinning, pest control, boundary line work, and estate and tax planning. Its foresters are registered in North and South Carolina. The firm's pages also list a SAF Certified Forester, a Certified Tree Farm Inspector, a Certified Prescribed Fire Manager in South Carolina, and a North Carolina real estate broker. The firm belongs to the Association of Consulting Foresters and the Society of American Foresters. Its South Carolina counties are Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Edgefield, Fairfield, Florence, Georgetown, Greenville, Greenwood, Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Lee, McCormick, Marion, Marlboro, Newberry, Oconee, Pickens, Richland, Saluda, Spartanburg, Sumter, Williamsburg, and York. It suits landowners in those counties who want one firm to take a timber sale from the first stand assessment through to the bids, or who want a management plan for land they intend to keep. From gfrforestry.com, read 16 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
Everything they're registered for
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