Selling Timber in Skagit County, WA
Quick answer
There are 10 timber businesses listed for Skagit County, Washington: 2 consulting foresters and 8 timber buyers, loggers and mills. 1 of them has an office in the county. The rest are registered to work here and travel in, and every listing shows how far its office is from the county seat.
Timber prices for Skagit County
No county publishes its own timber prices. These are Washington's published stumpage prices, what landowners are paid for standing timber, and the best public guide to what timber in Skagit County is bringing. Your own timber can sell above or below them.
| Douglas-fir | $273–$635 per thousand board feet |
| Western hemlock | $180–$352 per thousand board feet |
| Western red cedar | $1,036–$1,051 per thousand board feet |
| Ponderosa pine | $133–$147 per thousand board feet |
Source: Washington Department of Revenue stumpage value tables, January–June 2026. All Washington timber prices
Before you talk to anyone, find out what your timber is worth
Most landowners in Skagit County have no idea what their standing timber is worth, which is exactly the position a buyer wants you in. Four questions gets you a ballpark range before the first offer lands.
No forester is based in Skagit County
That is normal here and not a problem. Foresters travel, and 2 of them work Skagit County from an office nearby. They are listed below, closest first. You can also click any county on the map above to see who is based there.
Consulting Foresters Working Skagit County (2)
Listed on the WSU Extension forestry consultant directory as working Skagit County, from an office elsewhere. Closest first.
Janicki Logging & Construction is a logging and forest management business based in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. It also does forestry consulting and land clearing or site work. The company traces back sixty years, when Stan Janicki Jr., a Skagit Valley native logger, started it as a local logging outfit. The work covers timber harvesting, forest management, habitat restoration, stream bank restoration, thinning, bridge construction, road construction, and excavating. Douglas-fir is the species named. On a job, a timber cruiser comes out to your land first, learns your goals, and then recommends what makes the best value for you before any cutting starts. Janicki Logging & Construction serves Skagit, Whatcom, Snohomish, King, Island, and San Juan counties. The minimum acreage for work is 10 acres, in the company's own words: "Whether it's 10-acres, 100-acres, or 1000-acres of forestland, tree farms are more than businesses." This fits a landowner with a modest woodlot who wants more than a straight timber sale, someone looking for thinning, stream work, or habitat restoration alongside the logging itself. From janickilogging.com, read 4 October 2026.
Skagit Log and Construction Inc. is a logging contractor in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a consulting forester. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills in Skagit County (1)
This buyer is based in Skagit County. Being close matters: hauling is one of the biggest costs taken out of your check.
Bayview Boards Custom Sawmilling is a family owned sawmill in Bow, Washington. They "sustainably harvest trees and make custom boards," and they've been at it since 2004, when founder Chris bought his first sawmill. This isn't a timber buying or logging outfit. It's a sawmill operation: they mill logs for other people, and they collect unique wood locally for their own projects, like specialty live edge tables. If you've got a log of your own, whether from a storm-fallen tree or a harvest, "you can also get your own personal log saw-milled at Bayview Boards." They work with Douglas Fir, Red Cedar, Black Walnut, and Black Oak, and they say to contact them to check what's in inventory. They serve Skagit County. There's no stated minimum acreage, but Chris's own family background gives a sense of scale: his family has owned about 40 acres of mature trees since 1953, which is what first made milling necessary for them. This fits a landowner who has a log or two to mill into boards, not a landowner looking to sell standing timber or hire a logging crew. From bayviewboards.weebly.com, read 4 October 2026.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills Nearby (7)
Businesses that buy, cut or mill timber in Skagit County, working from a nearby town.
Antrim Custom Cut is a mill in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Bow Hill Millworks is a family-owned sawmill and home building business in Bow, Washington, in Skagit Valley. It serves Skagit County. The mill takes on production dimensional milling with a circular saw, cutting lumber efficiently for construction. They "mill projects large and small with all local flavors of wood," and they work with landowner timber, using slash wood for firewood and sending shavings to sheep and vegetable farms. Beyond milling, they also do home design and craft home building, putting up energy-efficient homes designed around the wood milled right off the property. They offer recommendations on wood usage based on local construction knowledge, and they say they believe in using "land owned timber to it's fullest potential" for sustainability and cost savings. The business is locally owned and operated, and run by a family with generations of experience in land ownership and wood harvesting. This fits a landowner in Skagit County who has trees to clear, wants the lumber turned into something useful on site, like a home built from their own wood, rather than a straight timber sale. From bowhillmillworks.com, read 4 October 2026.
Coastal Timber Cutting is a logging contractor in Skagit County, Washington. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Hudson Logging is a logging contractor in Skagit County, Washington. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Iron Mountain Sawmilling is a mill in Skagit County, Washington. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Skagit Portable Sawmill runs a portable mill out of Sedro-Woolley, Washington, serving Skagit County. This isn't a timber-buying outfit. They come to your logs (or you bring them in) and saw lumber to your specs, so it fits the landowner who has a few good trees down and wants boards, not a check. The mill itself is a Woodmizer LT-50, handling logs up to about 42 inches across. Beyond sawing, they also offer kiln drying, planing, jointing, sanding, shaping, and custom and standard moulding. They've worked with walnut and maple among other species. Pricing runs by the board foot, with hourly rates sometimes applied to smaller or lower-grade logs. As they put it, "good logs make good boards," and they'll help you figure out which of your logs are worth milling. There's no stated minimum acreage, but their own smallest-job note talks about a trailer load or less of logs, with anything under 1,000 board feet quoted as a lump sum. So this is built for people with a modest pile of logs, not a whole stand to harvest. The family bought their own twenty acre farm and woodlot in Skagit Valley in 2016, and started the mill after hiring one themselves to deal with storm-felled trees. If you're a homeowner or small landowner with a handful of logs worth turning into lumber, and you want to deal directly with the people running the saw, this is who you'd call. From skagitportablesawmill.com, read 4 October 2026.
Skagit River Reman is a timber buyer in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Questions landowners ask
How many timber buyers and foresters serve Skagit County?
10 businesses are listed for Skagit County: 2 consulting foresters and 8 buyers, loggers and mills. 1 of them has an office in the county.
How much is my timber worth in Skagit County?
Nobody can tell you what your timber is worth without walking it. Value depends on the species, the size and grade of the trees, how thickly they stand, the ground conditions and how easily a logger can reach them. Anyone who quotes you a figure without seeing the land is guessing, and a guess in that direction is rarely in your favour.
What stumpage value means →Do I need a forestry consultant to sell timber in Skagit County?
You do not have to use one. A consulting forester works for you rather than the buyer, marks the timber, runs a sealed-bid sale and typically charges a percentage of the sale. Research from several state extension services has found that timber sold through a consultant often returns enough more to cover the fee, though results vary by tract and by market. The decision usually turns on the size of the sale and whether you have sold timber before.
Do I need a forestry consultant? →Do I need a permit to cut timber in Washington?
Washington is not like the southern states on this. You must file a Forest Practices Application or Notification with the Department of Natural Resources before you can legally harvest timber, even on your own land, and DNR generally has about thirty days to review it. Mandatory stream-buffer and reforestation rules apply. Local governments generally cannot add rules on top of this.
Permit rules in Washington →What is timber worth in Skagit County?
No price series is published for Skagit County on its own. Washington's latest published stumpage figures (Washington Department of Revenue stumpage value tables, January–June 2026) put western red cedar at $1,036–$1,051 per thousand board feet. What your own timber brings depends on the species, the size and amount of it, and how far it is from a mill. A timber cruise by a forester settles it.
Forester listings for Skagit County come from the WSU Extension forestry consultant directory, revised 2026-11-04. The register is updated quarterly.