William H. Lock & Associates, Inc.
This firm's office is in Greensboro, NC, outside Virginia. It appears here because the Virginia forestry register lists it as working 15 Virginia counties. Worth asking how far they'll travel for a tract your size.
About William H. Lock & Associates, Inc.
William H. Lock & Associates, Inc. is a consulting forestry firm in Greensboro, Virginia, and has operated as a family owned business for over 40 years. It works in Bedford, Bedford City, Bland, Carroll, Floyd, Franklin, Grayson, Henry, Martinsville City, Montgomery, Patrick, Pittsylvania, Pulaski, Roanoke and Wythe. It offers a free consultation about your property to talk through your goals for the land. Its services include timber cruising and appraisals, timber marking, timber sale contract preparation and administration, harvest inspections, forest stewardship and management plans, present use tax plans, timber trespass reports, hunting lease administration, boundary line painting and pine tree planting. It describes its complete jobs as "turn-key," covering inventory, marketing, harvest inspections and reforestation, handled through one phone call to the office. Its credentials are Registered Foresters in North Carolina and Virginia, Certified Foresters nationally, a Technical Service Provider for NRCS programs, Certified Arborists, and Tree Farm Inspectors in North Carolina. It also lists a real estate broker credential for referrals only, in both states. The smallest job on its sales pages is a 2019 sale on Ashland Road, with 5.6 acres of clearcut and 2.0 acres of select cut buffer. That is the smallest job it has shown, so it is the basis for a rough minimum, not a stated policy. This firm suits owners in those counties who want one company to plan, sell and replant their timber. From whlock.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
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