Panther Creek Forestry, LLC
About Panther Creek Forestry, LLC
Panther Creek Forestry, LLC is a forestry consulting firm based in McMinnville, Tennessee, serving landowners in Cannon County and across Tennessee, northern Georgia, and northern Alabama. They handle the full run of forest work: management plans, Greenbelt tax plans, timber sales, inventory and appraisal, reforestation, prescribed burning, cost share applications, Tree Farm certification, and wildlife or recreation management. They also deal with exotic and invasive species like privet and Callery pear, and pests such as Emerald Ash Borer and Southern Pine Beetle, working with hardwoods, pines, and walnut among others. For a timber sale, a forester first helps you work out your goals, even if a sale isn't the right answer. If it is, they inventory the timber to a 90-95% confidence level, check your boundaries, roads, and access, then solicit bids from qualified buyers. They require that buyers be fully insured and follow best management practices, and they hold a deposit back until a final inspection passes. Sales can run lump-sum or pay-as-cut. Their credentials include membership in the Society of American Foresters, status as an American Tree Farm System Qualified Inspector, work as a technical service provider for the USDA's NRCS, prescribed burn certification, and a Tennessee Pesticide Charter. Benjamin Myers founded the firm in 2002, and it became a full-service consulting operation in 2008. They state they work with properties from 50 to 5,000+ acres. This fits a landowner with a larger tract who wants one firm to handle planning, the sale itself, and follow-up work like burning or pest control, rather than someone with just a few acres looking for a single quick job. From panthercreekforestry.com, read 3 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? →
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? →
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? →
runs the sale and handles the contract
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