Heritage Habitat & Forestry
About Heritage Habitat & Forestry
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.
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
This firm isn't credited with all three, which doesn't make it a worse forester — plenty specialise in management planning, wildlife or wetlands. It does mean that if your goal is to sell timber, you'd likely need someone else for the part that's missing.
Everything they're registered for
Hover or tap a service to see what it means for you.
Counties covered
Heritage Habitat & Forestry
Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll make the introduction. Free, no obligation.