Holstine Forestry Consulting, LLC
About Holstine Forestry Consulting, LLC
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.
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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