Forester Services in PA

Forester Services in Pa include:

Consulting forester in Pennsylvania performing forest management plans, timber sales, timber valuations, real estate services, wildlife habitat improvement in Pa.

As a Consulting Forester in Pa, I have been providing forestry services for private landowners and State Forests in Pa and New York for 25 years.

The most important forester service is timber sale administration.  When a landowner wants to sell timber from his land, he may only have one or two timber sales in a lifetime.  It is important to get the maximum amount of money, and at the same time, protect future timber growth and the aesthetics of the land as well as ensure environmental law compliance.  This involves setting up the sale so that machinery does not harm the soil and the remaining trees.  Also, marketing the timber to the right buyer is important as the highest payer may not be anyone you know or be the local saw mill or logger.  Income is not the most important objective of a timber sale.  A proper harvest is far more important.  We ensure that the timber is marked, tallied and a prospectus is shown to the best timber buyers who use reputable logging companies to harvest their timber.

Forest Herbicide Application

We are licensed in Pennsylvania and New York to apply herbicides necessary to adjust plant growth in forestry. If you have native or non- native invasive plants crowding out the growing space and preventing quality timber and wildlife plants from getting established.   It is usually necessary for regeneration of timber to apply herbicide to heavy …

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How to Sell Timber From Your Land

Most landowners sell timber from their land once or twice in a lifetime.  Its a big step and should not be taken lightly.  Of course, once a tree is cut down, you can’t put it back and 80 to 180 years of growth is wasted unless the timber sale is done right. Keep in mind …

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Five Reasons Why Your Land is Not as Valuable as it Could Be

Wildlife habitat and timber stand improvement adds value to your land both monetarily and spiritually. If you’re counting on the Game Commission and the Forestry Department to provide wild game to see and hunt, you shouldn’t be. The PGC is an undermanned, bureaucratic quasi-government organization whose ineptitude has squandered the opportunity to have one of …

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Creating Great Habitat

In order to create a deer bedding habitat we follow a standard procedure of choose an area, spray, thin fence, plant and maintain. This unit is about 27 acres with a ridgetop on the South side, a steep bank and creek to the East and thick pine regeneration on the North and West sides. The …

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