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TIMBER APPRAISALS, HARVESTING AND TIMBER SALES |
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 As a landowner, you have several options for marketing your timber. Your best option is to contract with the professional foresters at Geode Forestry to oversee both the sale and harvest. At Geode Forestry, we have an excellent reputation with both timber buyers and timber sellers. Because we seek long term relationships rather than short term gains, we approach every potential timber harvest as a project with both immediate and long term benefits for the landowner. We are committed to helping you secure the best price for your timber through a competitive bidding process while protecting the integrity of your forest well into the future. Here's what we'll do:
- Before any trees are marked for harvest, we'll meet with you to discuss both your current and future objectives. That helps us determine how heavily to harvest and which trees to target for sale.
- Next, we provide a free, no obligation assessment of your timber to help us recommend if a harvest is, indeed, appropriate at the present time. Sometimes, we recommend that landowners postpone the harvest for a few more years to allow the trees to fully mature. That cautious approach helps ensure that you will not sell trees too early and short-change yourself in the long run. If we decide that a harvest is warranted, we'll mark the trees on all sides so they're easy to see, and we'll mark them again at the stump as a security spot to let the owner know that the trees that were harvested were the ones that were actually intended for the loggers' saws.
- Finally, after the trees are marked and the sale trees are scaled to determine merchantable board foot volume, we prepare a bid package for submission to bonded timber buyers. Buyers are invited to submit sealed bids, with the opening generally conducted in Geode's own offices. The competitive bidding process helps guarantee that you receive the very best price for your timber. We will also prepare a Timber Sale contract which will be signed by you and the buyer. Then we'll make sure you receive payment for your timber and we'll conduct periodic inspections of the harvest process.
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