Timber Buyers

Raven Forestry is a consulting forester in Webster Springs, West Virginia. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a timber buyer. A consulting forester works for the landowner, not the buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Red Oak Farms Lumber Co. is a timber buyer, logging outfit, and sawmill operation based in Wheeling, West Virginia. They buy standing timber, and they also step in when gas well or right-of-way companies want access to your land, saying "call us first" before you deal with those crews directly. Their work covers standing timber buying, select cuttings, clearings, appraisals, lumber sales, and trucking with their own flatbed and boom trucks. Species they buy include cherry, red and white oak, ash, hard and soft maple, poplar, walnut, veneer woods, and blocking woods. They say their appraisal is free, and that timber cut and hauled one species at a time brings a better return, which is the approach they say they use. They serve Ohio County and describe working the West Virginia and Ohio area, with locations named in Wheeling WV, Quaker City OH, Bellmont County PA, and Waynesburg PA. They don't give a set minimum acreage, but their own words are plain on the point: "Whether your standing timber is on a large tract or a small one, we want to talk to you." They describe themselves as a locally owned and operated family firm that has been buying timber and selling wood in the area for 20 years. This fits a landowner, large tract or small, who wants one call to handle a timber sale or to get ahead of a gas well or right-of-way crew before they clear the land themselves. From redoakfarmslumberco.com, read 4 October 2026.

Hinzman Millworks Inc is a sawmill and timber buyer in West Union, West Virginia. It's a "fifth-generation, family-owned" operation that has run since 1990, and it buys standing timber as well as milling it. The mill's main focus is white oak, which it turns into staves for bourbon barrels, including barrels used by Buffalo Trace. Hinzman Millworks also mills railroad ties, cants, construction-grade hardwood, coal mine cribbing, and other dimensional lumber, so it isn't built around one product alone. It works directly with landowners and loggers to buy timber, kiln dries what it takes in, and prepares export-ready stock for cooperages and wineries overseas. It names Doddridge County as an area it serves, and says more broadly that it's "dedicated to supporting the hardworking people and natural resources of the great state of West Virginia." It describes its harvesting as selective, aimed at long-term forest health rather than cutting everything at once. This fits a landowner in Doddridge County with white oak on their land worth looking at for stave quality, who wants a mill that will buy the logs directly rather than just a crew to cut them. From hinzmanmillworks.com, read 4 October 2026.

Meadow River Hardwood Lumber is a mill in Rainelle, West Virginia. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a timber buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

Rolling Ridge Woods is a log buyer and exporter based in Parkersburg, West Virginia. They buy American hardwood logs, mostly for the export market, and sell to buyers overseas as well as domestically. If you've got hardwood logs to sell, their pitch is that they handle the paperwork side of things, the regulations, permits, and compliance that come with shipping logs overseas, so you don't have to sort that out yourself. They say they want "truckload quantities," which gives you a sense of the scale they're set up for. They buy "a wide range of species and grades," and their logs go through USDA inspection, including certification to inspect for Spongy Moth and Emerald Ash Borer. They've been exporting logs since 2002, and say they have over 150 years of experience collectively on their team. Rolling Ridge Woods works with a parent company, Yoder Lumber, on sourcing fine hardwoods, and has an overseas office in Shanghai along with relationships with freight forwarders for moving logs internationally. This one looks built for landowners or producers with a real volume of hardwood logs to move, truckload amounts, not a few trees off a small lot, and who want someone comfortable with the export side of the business. From rollingridgewoods.com, read 4 October 2026.

Jim C Hamer Co is a timber buyer in Danville, West Virginia. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a mill. A timber buyer purchases standing timber and arranges the harvest. A listing here is not an endorsement.

WVLandGroup is a timber buying and forestry consulting business based in St. Albans, West Virginia. They work with landowners in Kanawha County on timber sales, timber inventory and appraisal, forest management plans, timber sales management, and timber damages assessment. The timber they handle is hardwoods, including Appalachian Hardwoods, White Oak, and Red Oak. Their process starts with a timber inventory and appraisal to work out the volume and market value of what's standing. That data and sale mapping then go out to the forest industry for purchase offers and harvest contract terms, often through their competitive sale process. Once a price and terms are agreed, their forester writes up the final sale contract and payment terms, with protections for insurance and liability built in. They describe their approach to appraisal this way: "no guessing no wondering. know what hardwoods you have and what they are worth." Their My Forester program, aimed at owners who want a forester on call before a sale comes up, is pitched as "cost effective professional management for your land." The company lists a Managing Forester on staff and points to "30+ years of land, forest and timber experience." This suits a landowner in Kanawha County who wants someone to run the whole sale from the first measurement of the trees through to the signed contract, rather than piecing it together on their own. From wvlandgroup.com, read 4 October 2026.

Holstine Forestry Consulting, LLC is a forestry consulting and timber buying business based in Charleston, West Virginia. Owner John Holstine has over 30 years of experience as a professional procurement forester in the forest products industry, working in West Virginia and surrounding states. The business handles long-term land management, timber sales, logging inspections, timber inventory, timber and damage appraisals, timber harvesting, absentee landowner representation, boundary line maintenance, hunting lease management, and marketing forest products. It works with oak, walnut, pine, and other hardwood, selling sawlogs, veneer logs, and pulpwood. John Holstine is a WV Registered Forester (#709), a Certified Tree Farmer through the American Tree Farm System, West Virginia real-estate licensed, and a member of the Society of American Foresters, West Virginia Chapter. Service runs throughout the Central Appalachian Region, including West Virginia and surrounding states. The minimum acreage is 25. For anything smaller, the business asks landowners to "email us directly with information about the property to see if it qualifies for harvesting." This one suits a landowner with at least 25 acres of standing timber, especially an absentee owner, who wants one person to handle the appraisal, the sale, and the oversight of the logging itself. From holstineforestry.com, read 4 October 2026.

Clonch Industries Inc. is a sawmill and timber buyer in Dixie, West Virginia. The family has run it for four generations, going back to 1925, and they still harvest from the Appalachian region they grew up in. They buy standing timber throughout West Virginia, and they also buy logs. Their own foresters can help a landowner put together a timber management plan, and the work is done under "sustainable forestry practices that are in line with local, state, and federal regulations." Species they handle include Red Oak, White Oak, Poplar, hard and soft maple, basswood, hickory, cherry, ash, and walnut. Besides timber and logs, they sell kiln-dried hardwood lumber, sawdust, chips, and bark, running a circular sawmill and 14 dry kilns with an annual kiln capacity of about sixteen million board feet and close to 20 million board feet of hardwood production a year. There's no stated minimum acreage for a timber sale. The smallest job on their books is a 5.25 acre tract near the Montgomery Exit on Rt. 60 in Fayette County, but that one is land for sale, not a timber harvest, so it doesn't tell you their floor for buying standing timber. This fits a landowner near Fayette County who wants to sell to an established Appalachian mill with its own foresters on staff, rather than a single buyer working alone. From clonchindustriesinc.com, read 4 October 2026.

Beaver Creek Forestry LLC is a consulting forester in Summersville, West Virginia. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. It is also listed as a timber buyer. A consulting forester works for the landowner, not the buyer. A listing here is not an endorsement.

NWH buys logs and standing timber. Locally, you'd be dealing with their Hacker Valley contact, and they serve Webster County in West Virginia, though the company itself runs out of Dallas, Texas and has been around since 1967. They buy both standing timber and cut logs, and they do the logging themselves through their own crews or logging partners. Species they're after include Ash, Cherry, Chestnut Oak, Hard Maple, Hickory, Poplar, Red Oak, Soft Maple, Walnut, White Oak, Yellow Birch, Alder, Basswood, and Pacific Coast Maple, depending on the region. A sale runs in four steps: they come out to evaluate your timber, give you a detailed estimate, settle an agreement with payment terms, then harvest. They describe the harvest work as done "efficiently, safely, and with respect for your land," following your state's Best Management Practices. They state a minimum of 10 acres to harvest, in their own words: "We work closely with landowners who have a minimum of 10 acres to harvest to evaluate your timber and understand your land's unique needs." This fits a landowner in Webster County with at least 10 acres of harvestable timber who wants a straightforward, outlined process from evaluation through payment to harvest, dealing with a company that also runs its own hardwood lumber manufacturing rather than just brokering logs. From nwh.com, read 4 October 2026.

Heritage Habitat & Forestry is a forestry consulting outfit with an office in Charleston, West Virginia. They do forest management planning, timber sale administration, forest carbon consulting, wildlife habitat work, and hunting lease management, serving landowners in Kanawha County and across the wider region. If you're thinking about a timber sale, they'll handle it start to finish, marking every tree to be cut, advertising the sale, and watching over erosion and sedimentation compliance. They also do forest inventory and appraisal work, breaking your timber down by species and diameter to put a fair market value on it, plus carbon credit consulting, absentee property oversight for owners who can't check on their land often, and drone and GIS mapping. The business is led by Anthony F. Pappas, a Certified Forester, and also lists SAF Candidate Certified Forester credentials. No tree species are named specifically, but the work covers both commercial timber and habitat improvement side by side. They state you should currently own at least 10 acres of forested property to work with them. One testimonial describes a 200 acre farm "with a lot of second growth timber" they surveyed in Doddridge County, giving a sense of the scale of jobs they've taken on. This fits a landowner who wants more than a quick timber check, someone looking at tax programs, carbon credit income, or a full management plan alongside a timber sale, rather than just a one-time cut and done. From heritagehabitatco.com, read 4 October 2026.

Allegheny Veneer Company buys veneer logs and export sawlogs out of Weston, West Virginia. They've been doing it since 1986, sourcing select logs for the veneer trade. They buy Red Oak, Cherry, Hard Maple, White Oak, Walnut, Elm, Ash, Basswood, Soft Maple, Yellow Poplar, Beech, and Birch. Their staff of log buyers or foresters will come out to your property and make an offer on the spot, and they say they "pay immediately upon inspection for your logs." They work across Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, with their listing here tied to Lewis County. There's no stated minimum acreage. They say they'll purchase "logs, timber lands and timber stands of any size," and the smallest property shown in their own timberland listings is a 300-acre wooded tract in Tucker County, West Virginia, offered for sale at $299,000. So this looks like a company more used to handling larger tracts and whole timberland sales alongside straight log buying, rather than a quick job on a small woodlot. This fits a landowner with a sizable tract, especially one considering selling the land itself along with the timber on it, more than someone with just a few acres looking for a single small harvest. From veneerlogs.com, read 4 October 2026.

True North Forestry LLC is a forestry consulting business in Weston, West Virginia, also listed under timber buyers. It works out of 92 Sunset Drive and serves Lewis County. When you hire them to sell your timber, they walk your woods to look at the stands, sit down with you to talk through your goals, and decide whether to sell by negotiating with a specific market or by sealed bid. They run a timber cruise to get volumes by species, then put together a prospectus covering payment schedule, sale date, reclamation requirements, and a topographic map of the location. From there they draw up a Timber Sale Agreement covering insurance, payment terms, reclamation, and a "Performance Bond" that has to be in place before any cutting starts and is held until the contract terms are met. They also run the closing where buyer and seller sign and payment is made, and they stay on through the harvest, starting with a pre-harvest meeting and continuing through reclamation. Beyond timber sales, they handle boundary line maintenance, management plans (including help with the WVDOF Managed Timberland and stewardship programs, and the USDA/NRCS CAP 106 program as a TSP provider), timber inventory and appraisals using GPS data collection, and timber trespass and encroachment work, where they determine how much timber was cut and its value, though they note they are not surveyors. On payment, they say plainly: "we are paid based on the amount your timber sells for." That lines their interest up with getting a fair price for your wood. This fits a landowner in Lewis County who wants someone to handle the whole timber sale process from first walk-through to the final reclamation check, not just a name to call for a quote. From truenorthforestryllc.com, read 4 October 2026.

Honest Forestry LLC is a forestry consulting and timber buying business based in Summersville, West Virginia, working in Nicholas County. Caleb Long founded it with over 12 years of forestry experience in the state, and he specializes in timber cruising, marketing, and wildlife-focused forest management. The work on offer covers a lot of ground: timber appraisals, timber cruises, long term forest management, forest stewardship and management plans, timber marketing, harvest planning and compliance oversight, property inspections, forest carbon marketing, boundary line painting, mapping, and drone services. They work with hardwood species. Their approach to a sale starts with cruising your timber to pin down species, volume, quality, and market potential, then matching your wood to the mills that need it, watching stumpage prices, mill inventories, and market trends along the way. They say "our job is to maximize your return." They also write Forest Stewardship Program plans, which can open the door to property tax reductions and cost-sharing funds. Wildlife work is part of the mix too, with harvests planned around habitat for deer, turkey, and grouse alongside the income from the timber itself. Caleb describes the business as built "on faith, integrity, and a commitment to responsible land stewardship." This suits a landowner in Nicholas County who wants one person handling the cruise, the marketing, the paperwork, and the wildlife side of a harvest, not just a buyer looking to log and leave. From honestforestry.com, read 4 October 2026.