Honest Forestry LLC
About Honest Forestry LLC
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.
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
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