Hiott Forestry Consultants, Inc.
About Hiott Forestry Consultants, Inc.
Hiott Forestry Consultants, Inc. is a forestry consulting firm based in York, South Carolina, in the Piedmont about thirty miles south of Charlotte, North Carolina. It works for private landowners and says its goal is to provide full service forestry needs for them. The firm handles timber sales and marketing, timber appraisals, damage and trespass appraisals, timber harvesting plans, and forest management plans. It also does forest road construction and road design, timber stand improvement (brush and grass control, pre-commercial thinning, and burning), and reforestation by aerial or ground site preparation and pine or hardwood planting. Wildlife work includes food plot design and planting, and pond location, design, permitting and construction. Hunting lease administration, timberland investment analysis, and GPS mapping are also on the list. The firm serves Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Richland, Spartanburg, Union, and York counties. It opened for business in July 2000. Before that, John A. Hiott spent twenty-one years with the forest industry. He holds a Master of Forestry from Duke University and is a Registered Forester in Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The firm also lists membership in the Society of American Foresters and an ISA Certified Arborist credential. The firm says all its services are priced competitively and that work is done "in a professional and confidential manner." It also says it operates in line with best management practices for forestry. This suits a landowner in one of those ten counties who wants one firm to handle timber sales, roads, and wildlife work together. From hiottforestry.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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Registered forester