Timber Buyers & Forestry Professionals in Bethel, VT

American Dirt and Wood LLC is a family owned logging and forestry business in North Springfield, Vermont. They trace their roots to 1989, when the business started under the name J&S Forest Management Services with a borrowed wood splitter, a pickup truck, and a chain saw. Today Steve Kraft, a licensed VT forester, runs the forestry side, and Ben Kraft handles equipment and operations. Their work starts with a forest management plan, including plans built for Vermont's current use program, and moves into logging from there. They describe themselves as "specializing in selective cutting" to take out the mature and crooked trees and make room for the good ones to grow. What doesn't go to a regular sawmill gets used too: they cut and split green and kiln dried firewood and saw rough lumber from logs a larger mill wouldn't take. They also do excavation and dirt work, from driveways to drainage to site work, which grew out of the equipment they already had for wood operations. They serve Windsor County and the greater Springfield, VT area. On a job, they say they "work closely with landowners to make sure their land is harvested to their satisfaction and the satisfaction of the current use program," and they offer a free estimate for lumber work. No acreage range is spelled out on their pages. This fits a Windsor County landowner who wants one outfit to handle the whole job, from the forestry paperwork through the cutting to hauling off firewood and lumber, rather than hiring separate people for each piece. From americandirtandwood.com, read 8 October 2026.

Long View Forest is in Hartland, Vermont, offering a full set of services to landowners who want to look after their woods. The company works in timber harvesting, tree planting, trails, clearing, and invasive plant control, along with forest management plan preparation, forest inventory and mapping, project planning, and property boundary maintenance. They work with red oak and white pine among other species. For logging, Long View Forest uses a system called "cut-to-length," where trees are cut to log lengths of 8 to 20 feet right in the woods before going out to sawmills or other buyers. They run their own fleet of equipment, felling, limbing, and processing trees, then bringing logs out with forwarders. Where ground is harder to reach, they'll hand-cut and use a skidder instead. They also do timber stand improvement, precommercial thinning, and pruning work for landowners not yet ready for a full harvest. Long View Forest serves Windsor County and works across the greater Connecticut River Valley, including Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Their foresters hold licenses in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, and they also have NRCS Technical Service Provider status. Founded in 1999, the company has grown from a three-person logging crew into a staff of 40 working across multiple divisions, and is now employee-owned. They manage 35,000 acres of private forestland. This fits a landowner who wants one company that can handle planning, logging, and follow-up woodland work together, rather than hiring separate people for each piece. From longviewforest.com, read 8 October 2026.

Vermont County Foresters is a consulting forester in White River Junction, Vermont. It appears in the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, Vermont County Foresters. It covers Orange and Windsor counties. A consulting forester works for the landowner, not the buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.