Timber Harvesting

Selling Timber

How to sell timber | Frequently Asked Questions: Selling Timber
Select Cutting or “high-grading” removes the best and leaves the rest.
Stealing Trees or Timber. Learn how to minimize the risk of timber theft on your property.
Know these signs of a good timber harvest.

Fallen Trees, Storm Damaged Trees

Severe thunderstorms and hurricanes can produce downed trees. Visit this Forestry and Wind Disaster website for provider contact information and other resources to help you prepare for, respond to, and recover from a major storm.

Timber Market Value and Marketing

Marketing timber and forest products through the Internet is a way to bring producers and markets together for everyone's benefit.

Timber Mart-South offers South-wide average price information and market news.
Forest2Market (F2M) proposes to "bring price transparency and increased efficiency to the stumpage market through the development of an on-line price collection and dissemination system." F2M uses a network of procurement foresters, wood buyers, and forestry consultants to estimate stumpage prices paid in actual timber sales. After critical review by F2M personnel, this information is then summarized by market area and made available to subscribers for on-line query and analysis.
Forestindustry provides its forest industry clients with a range of online support and Internet services, such as Web design and hosting, catalog development, and product promotion and marketing.
Forestweb presents in-depth information about the forest industry gathered. It features the latest news and commentary covering forestry and resource management, pulp and paper, wood products, recycling, public policy issues, and e-commerce. Registration and use of the Forestwebsite is free.
TimberBuySell.com allows users to create, post, and search for information about sales of forest resources and also related transactions. The website covers core products such as standing timber, logs, forest residue, and mill by-products in the U.S. and Canada.

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Logging Notification
Loggers must notify us of their timber harvests.

Urban and Community Forestry
Do you live in a suburb? Learn how trees benefit cities and towns.

Rain Gardens
These man-made depressions in the ground collect water runoff and store it, so it can be filtered and slowly absorbed by the soil.

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