Freelance Forestry, LLC
About Freelance Forestry, LLC
Freelance Forestry, LLC is a forestry consulting firm in Stanardsville, Virginia. It helps Central Virginia landowners get more value from their timber through timber sales and forest management. Mark Strickland leads the firm and holds the credentials Certified Professional Forester and Certified Forester. The firm says it brings over 40 years of hands-on experience across private consulting, forest industry, government agencies, and logging operations. It works with timber tracts of 40 acres or more, and it does not do residential tree removal or small lot clearing. The work covers timberland evaluations, forest management plans, timber cruising, timber sales, thinning, selective harvests, clear cutting and final harvest, and reforestation. The firm works with pine and hardwood stands. A timber sale goes in steps. The firm appraises the timber, markets it to buyers, and can run sealed bid sales so buyers compete against each other. It then oversees the harvest to protect the land. The process begins with an introductory timberland evaluation, an informal meeting followed by a walk through the woods. If the landowner goes ahead, both sides sign a Consulting Forester Agreement and the firm manages the project to completion. The service area is a 100-mile radius from Charlottesville, and Greene is among the counties it serves. This firm suits a landowner with 40 acres or more of pine or hardwood who wants the timber valued, sold, and watched over during the harvest, with the aim of keeping the land "like the financial asset it is." From freelanceforestryllc.com, read 17 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
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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