TIMBER HARVESTS
SERVICES PROVIDED:
High Quality Timber Sales for effective timber management include species such as Black Cherry, Black Walnut, Red Maple, White/Red Oak, Sugar Maple, and more. For those interested in low-grade timber sales, options include Aspen, Beech, Cottonwood, and Silver Maple. Our softwood timber sales feature Pine, Spruce, and Larch. We also offer comprehensive forestry consulting services alongside timber marking, sales, and administration.
MANAGED TIMBER HARVESTS
Low-Grade Harvest
Quality Timber Harvest
Quality Timber Harvest
This type of harvest targets the removal of undesirable growing stock, a crucial aspect of effective timber management. Although lower income can typically be expected, when done in combination with government grants (where appropriate), the project value can be increased. More importantly, the “release” of the better quality residual stems and potential regeneration openings this operation can create results in not only a healthier residual forest but also higher overall income over time, benefiting from expert forestry consulting and strategic timber sales.
Quality Timber Harvest
Quality Timber Harvest
Quality Timber Harvest
Forests that contain quality, sawtimber-size trees are the hallmark of good forest management. Effective forestry consulting focuses on tree selection, the right sale price, and ongoing harvest and post-harvest site conditions. Proper communication between foresters and clients is also key in implementing timber sales, ensuring that expectations for existing and post-stand conditions, including the next planned harvest and regeneration concerns, can be adequately addressed.
Softwood Harvests
Quality Timber Harvest
Softwood Harvests
These harvests focus on planted softwood species like red pine, white pine, a variety of spruce species, and others. Typically mechanized, these operations require not only equipment but also operational and market expertise, often provided through forestry consulting. While softwood harvests usually do not yield the income associated with quality hardwood sales, effective timber management, market timing, grant opportunities, and the chance to rejuvenate a plantation footprint can all contribute to making these efforts worthwhile, particularly in terms of timber sales.
Timber Harvesting Services
“Why should I make more money just because a client’s timber is valuable?”
The answer is, one should not. Using an hourly and per diem-based system, Keister Consulting, Inc. has provided comprehensive forestry consulting services that include timber management and timber sales, delivering solutions to clients for fees that calculate out as low as 5 or 6 percent of the sale price.
