Thank you for visiting my consulting forestry website. You have come to the right place if you have timber to sell, want to learn what your forest’s management options may be, want professional help with buying timberland, seek basic forestry education or you simply want to find out what a consulting forester does. As a qualified, professional consulting forester, I offer valuable forestry services to woodland owners and natural resource industries of all descriptions in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and eastern Ohio. My clients may range in size from the small, private woodlot owner to the natural resource investor, the oil and natural gas industry, TIMO, REIT or other commercial-timberland-owning organization including land trusts, sportsmen’s clubs, municipalities and water companies, to list just a few.
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The foundation and purpose of my consulting forestry practice is to make a positive impact on the natural environment whenever possible and to provide client-need-based, relevant and beneficial forestry and land management services. I am a staunch supporter of private-landowner rights, and after I have educated a client to all their options and the related ramifications, I will do my best to implement and accomplish their choices and project objectives.
Services I provide:
- Standing timber & log sales marketing
- Design, implementation & supervision of timber sales and harvesting operations
- Application of silviculture
- Comprehensive forest management planning
- Ecosystem restoration activities
- Gas and oil well timber damage appraisals
- Trespass cut appraisals
- Timber stand improvement
- Expert witness courtroom work
- Pipeline right-of-way timber damage appraisals
- Pre-construction timber damage reduction planning for gas well pad and roadway locations
- Landowner consultations
- Timber evaluations
- Property Mapping
- Timber appraisals
- Sequestered carbon and carbon dioxide equivalent inventories
- Biomass, sawtimber and pulpwood inventories/cruises
- Timber & woodland investment counseling and evaluations for potential buyers
- Technical support and consultations for do-it-yourself land managers
- Tree farm and certified forest technical support and consultations
- Wildlife habitat management
