Selling Timber in Spokane County, WA
Quick answer
There are 11 timber businesses listed for Spokane County, Washington: 2 consulting foresters and 9 timber buyers, loggers and mills. 5 of them have offices 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 Spokane 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 Spokane 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 Spokane 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.
Consulting Foresters in Spokane County (2)
These 2 foresters have offices right here in Spokane County. A forester works for you, not for the buyer.
Kaniksu Timber Management is a forestry consulting and logging outfit based in Deer Park, Washington. They've served North Idaho and Eastern Washington since 2021, and in the directory they're listed serving Spokane County, with Pend Oreille County showing up too. They say it straight: "We are a full service forestry consulting and contracting firm. We can help with just about anything involving trees, land management or road building." That covers a lot of ground. Forest management planning, selective logging, fire fuel reduction, timber valuation and cruising, hazard tree work, pile burning, road building and maintenance, habitat improvement, reforestation and tree planting, and custom GIS mapping. If you're selling timber, they walk you through the whole thing, permits, contracts, logging, pile burning, and getting the ground replanted after. They say they lean on "an extensive network of logging contractors and log buyers" so a sale can be sized to fit the job and the returns maximized. For hazard trees they keep an arborist on retainer for select removals, and their own faller handles production cutting. They also say they're insured, which matters if trucks and equipment are coming onto your land. No tree species or job sizes are spelled out on their pages, so if you've got a specific species mix or a very small lot, it's worth asking first. This one fits a landowner in Eastern Washington or North Idaho who wants one outfit to run the whole project, from first cruise to the mapping and paperwork, rather than hiring a logger and a forester separately. From kaniksutimber.com, read 4 October 2026.
Silver City Timber Co is a logging and forestry consulting business out of Deer Park, Washington, working in Spokane County. They take on timber harvest jobs along with land clearing and site work, and their foresters handle the consulting side too. A job starts with a Pre-Harvest meeting with a forester to go over your short and long term goals. From there they put together a management plan built around those goals, point you toward any state forestry programs that might fit, and take care of all the timber harvest permitting. Property lines and Riparian Zones get identified and flagged before anything is cut. Their crews work to keep the impact on the ground and the remaining stand to a minimum, and they manufacture logs by size and species to get the best return. Beyond harvest work, they also do forest fire fuels reduction, slash disposal, thinning, and road clearing and construction, using everything from helicopter and line machines to small and large acreage crews. As they put it, "no matter the size of the job, we can handle it." There's no stated minimum acreage, but nothing in their own services points to a small-tract cutoff either, so this looks like a business set up to handle a range of acreage sizes without turning smaller landowners away outright. This fits a landowner in or near Spokane County who wants a forester involved from the first meeting through permitting, not just a crew that shows up to cut. From silvercitytimber.com, read 4 October 2026.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills in Spokane County (3)
These 3 are based in Spokane County. Being close matters: hauling is one of the biggest costs taken out of your check.
Empire Lumber Co Inc is a mill in Spokane, Washington. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
JK Mulching LLC is a logging contractor in Spokane, Washington. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Worley Logging, LLC is a logging contractor in Elk, Washington. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills Nearby (6)
Businesses that buy, cut or mill timber in Spokane County, working from a nearby town.
M & J Hodgsons Logging is a logging contractor in Spokane Valley, Washington. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Mc Namee & Sons Logging is a logging contractor in Elk, Washington. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Mitchams Sawmill is a mill in Mead, Washington. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Offgrid sawmill is a mill in Deer Park, Washington. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Prairie Quality Wood Products is a sawmill listed under Spokane, Washington, though the business itself is based in North Idaho and mills "quality timber milled locally" there. It's a family-owned operation that takes logs from local trees and turns them into specialty boards, slabs, beams, and oversized timbers. They also do custom milling for contractors and woodworkers. No minimum tract size is mentioned anywhere on their pages, so there's nothing to go on for how small a job they'll take. Their work covers dimensional lumber and live edge slabs as well as timber framing material, good for anything from countertops to pergolas. No tree species are named, and there's no stated history of how long they've been running, just that they are "family-owned and operated." This fits a landowner near North Idaho or Spokane who wants logs milled into usable lumber or slabs rather than a standing timber sale handled start to finish. From prairiequalitywood.com, read 4 October 2026.
Turley Logging & Timberland is a logging contractor in Cheney, Washington. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Questions landowners ask
How many timber buyers and foresters serve Spokane County?
11 businesses are listed for Spokane County: 2 consulting foresters and 9 buyers, loggers and mills. 5 of them have offices in the county.
How much is my timber worth in Spokane 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 Spokane 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 Spokane County?
No price series is published for Spokane 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 Spokane County come from the WSU Extension forestry consultant directory, revised 2026-11-04. The register is updated quarterly.