Selling Timber in Lewis County, WV

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.

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.