Sims Forestry Services
About Sims Forestry Services
Sims Forestry Services is a forestry consulting business in Staunton, Virginia. It was founded in 1987 and has worked with private landowners across Virginia for over 35 years. Its consulting forester work is carried out as prescribed in Virginia state code section 10.1-1181.9. The work covers timber sales from "Start to Finish." That means timber marking, cruising, volume and value estimates, bidding, preparing and administering the timber sale contract, and weekly monitoring of logging operations. The firm also writes forest management plans, including Forest Stewardship plans, and offers timber taxation help, storm and insect damage assessment, GPS and GIS mapping, pre-harvest planning and logging road design, timber stand improvement, wildlife habitat management, and boundary line painting. Field data is recorded with its own CRUISE software. It serves 35 Virginia counties and Staunton City, among them Albemarle, Augusta, Rockingham and Warren. They will not give a value for a property without seeing it first. In their words, "we have to look." It suits a landowner who wants one firm to handle a timber sale from first measurement through to monitored logging, or who needs a written plan for the land before any cutting. From simsforestry.com, read 23 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
Hover or tap a service to see what it means for you.
Counties covered
Sims Forestry Services
Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll make the introduction. Free, no obligation.