Acorn Forestry
About Acorn Forestry
Acorn Forestry, which trades online as Acorn Outdoors, is a Lufkin, Texas forestry and land management firm that describes itself as "a leader among forestry companies in the southeast specializing in prescribed burning, reforestation, sustainable forestry, and timberland management." The site says Acorn was started in 1997 and incorporated in 1999 in Huntsville, Texas by Justin Penick, that tree planting, herbicide application and prescribed burning were among its first services, and that it moved to Lufkin in 2003, with its home office now based in Hudson, Texas. It states that it employs degreed foresters and forest technicians along with office and shop staff, and that it "conducts silvicultural operations on 115,000 acres annually across the West Gulf Region, and actively manages another 120,000 acres controlling all aspects of wildlife, timber, and restoration activities," with page titles describing coverage across TX, LA, AR and OK. Planning services listed include timber sales in which Acorn acts as "the landowner's sales agent," timber cruising and valuation, timber marking, boundary line maintenance, timber and wildlife management plans written on a ten-year outlook and revised every five years, reforestation plans backed by "more than 20 years of experience in reforestation across over one million acres" and often aligned with cost-share programs such as EQIP through the NRCS, GPS/GIS mapping, and in-house large format printing up to 46 inches wide and 150 feet long. Field execution covers hand and machine planting, herbicide application, heavy mechanical site prep, understory and site prep burning, ripping, shearing, eco-til, bedding, firebreaks and pile burns. A range management page describes turnkey restoration across the cross timbers, hill country, pineywoods, coastal prairies and short grass prairies, including control of mesquite, cedar, saltcedar and giant reed. Senior wildlife biologist Ricky Gay is described as a Board Director for the Texas Forestry Association. No minimum tract size is stated anywhere on the site. As described on acornoutdoors.com, read 23 September 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
This firm isn't credited with all three, which doesn't make it a worse forester — plenty specialise in management planning, wildlife or wetlands. It does mean that if your goal is to sell timber, you'd likely need someone else for the part that's missing.
Everything they're registered for
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Counties covered
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San Jacinto, Panola, Anderson, Walker, Newton, Hardin, Leon, Madison, Smith, Gregg, Liberty, Montgomery, Harrison, Freestone, Henderson, Grimes, Upshur, Orange, Marion, Brazos, Jefferson, Van Zandt, Wood, Robertson, Harris, Limestone, Chambers, Navarro, Camp, Waller, Cass, Morris, Rains, Washington, Burleson, Kaufman, Franklin, Falls, Titus, Hopkins, Galveston, Austin, Milam, Fort Bend, Ellis, Rockwall, McLennan, Bowie, Hunt, Hill, Lee, Delta, Brazoria, Dallas, Red River, Colorado, Bell, Fayette, Wharton, Collin, Lamar, Johnson, Bastrop, Fannin, Bosque, Williamson, Tarrant, Coryell, Lavaca, Matagorda, Somervell, Denton, Travis, Grayson, Jackson, Hood, Caldwell, Hamilton, Parker, Burnet, Lampasas, Gonzales, Hays, Erath, Wise, Cooke, Victoria, DeWitt, Calhoun, Guadalupe, Mills, Blanco, Comanche, Palo Pinto, Comal, Llano, Montague, San Saba, Jack, Goliad, Wilson, Karnes, Aransas, Eastland, Refugio, Brown, Kendall, Gillespie, Bexar, Stephens, Young, Clay, Mason, Bee, McCulloch, Coleman, Atascosa, Archer, Callahan, San Patricio, Kerr, Live Oak, Bandera, Shackelford, Medina, Throckmorton, Wichita, Kimble, Menard, Concho, Nueces, McMullen, Baylor, Frio, Real, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Wilbarger, Uvalde, La Salle, Duval, Edwards, Zavala, Kenedy, Dimmit, Brooks, Kinney, Webb, Maverick, Jim Hogg, Willacy, Cameron, Hidalgo, Zapata, Starr
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