Forestry Consultants

605 Forestry LLC is a consulting forester in Custer, South Dakota. It appears in the South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, South Dakota Register of Private Professional Foresters (effective 03.10.2023). Credentials on the register: Certified Forester. A consulting forester works for the landowner, not the buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Altergott Forestry LLC works out of Spearfish, South Dakota, serving landowners in Lawrence County in the Black Hills. The company has been "Serving the Black Hills since 2006" and is run by Adam Altergott, a Certified Forester. The work covers a wide range: consulting and stewardship, forest management plans, precommercial thinning, forest fuel reduction, whole tree removal and chipping, logging, pest and weed control, landscape restoration, firebreak construction, powerline vegetation clearing, and prescribed burning. They also handle storm damage cleanup and fire suppression work. Credentials listed include Licensed, Insured, and Certified Forester and Forestry Contractor status, American Tree Farm Inspector (ATFS), and South Dakota State Forester with SAF South Dakota. Their own words describe the approach this way: "At Altergott Forestry, we always keep landowner preferences in mind while creating a healthy and safe landscape." They sum up their pitch in three words: "Certified. Professional. Affordable." This looks like a fit for a landowner in the Black Hills area who wants one outfit to handle both the forestry planning side and the physical work on the ground, from thinning and logging to fire prevention and cleanup after a storm. From altergottforestry.com, read 10 October 2026.

BLACK HILLS FORESTRY INC. is a consulting forester in Spearfish, South Dakota. It appears in the South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, South Dakota Register of Private Professional Foresters (effective 03.10.2023). Its listing names A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J and more. Credentials on the register: Certified Forester. A consulting forester works for the landowner, not the buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

DAKOTA FORESTRY, L.L.C. is a consulting forester in Custer, South Dakota. It appears in the South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, South Dakota Register of Private Professional Foresters (effective 03.10.2023). A consulting forester works for the landowner, not the buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

FRONTIER FORESTRY, LLC is a consulting forester in Chadron, South Dakota. It appears in the South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, South Dakota Register of Private Professional Foresters (effective 03.10.2023). Credentials on the register: Certified Forester. A consulting forester works for the landowner, not the buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

JOHNSON TREE SERVICE, INC, doing business as Johnson Tree Company, is based in Rapid City, South Dakota. It has worked out of Rapid City since 1980, when Charles and David Johnson started the business with a single bucket truck. This is a tree-care and consulting-forestry outfit, not a logging crew. Its work covers tree sales, tree moving with a tree spade, pruning, tree surgeries, transplanting, installation, and removal, along with tree-care consultation. Dave Johnson also works as a consulting arborist and expert witness, handling cases that touch timber trespass, easement and right-of-way disputes, construction damage to trees, and tree appraisals, for government agencies, law firms, insurers, and private landowners. Species it has sold or worked with include ponderosa pine, white spruce, Colorado blue spruce, and quaking aspen. It serves South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming, with its base in the Black Hills. Dave Johnson holds ISA Certified Arborist credential #MW-0340A and is a Registered Consulting Arborist, RCA #459, with the American Society of Consulting Arborists, stated as the only ASCA member and Registered Consulting Arborist practicing in South Dakota. The company describes itself as "not a discount cut-and-run tree 'service'" and says its aim is "zero-pressure sales" with fair pricing. This fits a landowner who wants a consulting arborist's opinion, an expert witness for a tree dispute, or help with individual trees, rather than someone looking to harvest or sell standing timber off a tract. From johnsontree.com, read 10 October 2026.

Spearfish Forest Products is a sawmill and timber buying business with local operations in Spearfish, South Dakota, run under the Neiman family of mills. Alongside logging and buying standing timber, they also do consulting forestry, so a landowner can get advice, a sale, and the cutting done through the same outfit. Their work centers on pine, including Ponderosa Pine. They cover ground from Northwest Nebraska to Southeastern Montana, with other operations in Hulett, Wyoming, Montrose, Colorado and Gilchrist, Oregon, each tied to a different part of that territory. The company's first mill opened in 1936 in Upton, Wyoming, and they describe themselves as "4th generation family owned." They hold certification to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative standard. If you're weighing a timber sale, their foresters say they will "provide a free consultation and appraisal of your timber at no charge" before anything moves forward. Their stated approach to the woods themselves, which they call "forest health first," covers thinning for wildfire risk, insect and disease concerns, and wildlife habitat, not just cutting and hauling logs. This fits a landowner with pine timber somewhere between Northwest Nebraska and Southeastern Montana, or near their other yards in Colorado or Oregon, who wants one long-running family company to walk the ground, put a number on the trees, and handle the sale start to finish. From neiman.com, read 4 October 2026.

SANDFORD LOGGING INC. is a consulting forester in Rapid City, South Dakota. It appears in the South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, South Dakota Register of Private Professional Foresters (effective 03.10.2023). Its listing names A, B, C, G, H, I, J, N, P and R and more. A consulting forester works for the landowner, not the buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.