Timber Buyers

The Florida Forest Service's forest products buyer register lists this business for cabbage palm, crooked wood, palmetto and upland timber, bought across fifteen Florida counties as the buyer lists them with the state. The company's own website carries none of that. It says nothing about buying timber or any forest product, and names no species, grades, minimum tract size or purchasing terms, so a landowner approaching this listing with palm or upland timber to sell will have to settle the buying side directly. What the site does describe is contractor work on land. It states that Double A Land Maintenance & Services "provides dependable forestry mulching, tree trimming, land clearing, brush cutting, and storm debris cleanup in Wauchula and throughout Central Florida", sold to homeowners, landowners, farmers and property managers, and the company calls itself "a small, family-owned business" whose team is licensed and insured, without naming a licence number or issuing body. On the mulching work the site says vegetation is ground into a natural mulch layer left on site rather than hauled away, which the company says can limit erosion and support moisture retention; land clearing it frames as preparing ground for construction, development or access roads, and brush cutting as controlling tall grass, weeds and small bushes. The counties the company lists for itself are Hardee, Polk, Hillsborough, Manatee, Desoto, Highlands, Osceola, Okeechobee and Charlotte, and the towns named are Bartow, Lakeland, Sarasota, Sebring and Wauchula. Estimates are free and given on site, with no price or rate published anywhere. The site gives a Wauchula city and ZIP but no street address, and a single first name, Darren, on its contact page. As described on aalandmaintenance.com, read 23 September 2026.

This is the Marianna entry on the Florida Forest Service's forest products buyer list, where F & W Forestry Services registers for pinestraw, upland timber and wetland timber and names twenty-two Florida counties: the western panhandle from Escambia, Santa Rosa and Okaloosa across Walton, Holmes, Washington, Bay, Calhoun, Jackson, Gulf, Franklin and Liberty to Gadsden, Leon, Jefferson and Wakulla, with a separate northern and central block taking in Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Brevard and Broward. The company's own website is a national corporate one that names no office locations at all, Florida's included; it says only that F&W's foresters are located throughout the United States, South America and Europe, and points visitors to a find-your-forester map. What it does set out is the firm behind the local contact. F&W says it was founded in 1962 by Eley Frazer and Frank Wetherbee, is headquartered in Albany, Georgia, and manages millions of acres of forestland worldwide. Its published timeline runs from regional inventories and forestland appraisals in the 1970s, through a decade in which the firm went from 25 employees in two states to 100 in eight, to work in Uruguay and Brazil and a Tree Farm Group certification in the 2000s, a stake in the French firm Cabinet Courdert in 2014, the acquisition of Fountains US and UK in 2016, and the FWS Forestry partnership with Stuntzner Engineering & Forestry in 2020. Eight service lines are published: timber sales, property management, field support services for TIMOs and REITs, forest inventory and mapping, forestland accounting, technical and analytical work, real estate and natural capital. On timber sales the firm describes pre-harvest valuations reporting species, age and condition, sale prescriptions and marketing to match timber to the best market, then on-site harvest supervision: harvest inspections and reporting, streamside management zone delineation, BMP compliance audits, timber marking, boundary re-marking, road maintenance oversight, drone monitoring, and Phase I Environmental Site Assessment during property transactions. None of it is written about the Marianna office in particular. As described on fwforestry.com, read 23 September 2026.

Gator Timber and Land is a timber and land buyer working out of 1520 Highway 17 North at Palatka, and it tells landowners on its own site that it will help whether they want to sell or buy land or standing timber. Its Buy/Sell Timber page calls the firm 'a major purchaser of timber in the Northeast Florida area, purchasing over four million dollars in stumpage annually', and names the counties it primarily operates in as Putnam, Clay, St. Johns, Flagler, Volusia, Duval, Baker, Bradford, Alachua, Marion, Union and Columbia, overlapping but not identical with the sixteen Florida counties the buyer lists with the Florida Forest Service. The About page widens that to buying and selling timber and land in North Florida and South Georgia. The same Buy/Sell page states a floor twice over: the minimum acreage for purchase is 20 acres of well stocked pine timber. Cutting is contracted rather than done in house, by nine contract crews the company says have close ties to it, with site preparation and replanting of cutover land handled by contractors who have worked for the firm for many years, and the site states that all of its loggers are Master Logger certified and take annual training. The replant page says that for every tree harvested another is planted. The history is long: it began as Springside Lumber Company, a mill west of Palatka started by Kelley Smith, Sr. in 1945, became a timber dealership in 1957, was bought by Kelley Smith, Jr. in 1972, was owned by Union Camp from 1978 until Smith bought it back in 1995, and took its present name in 2003. Kelley Smith, Jr. and Stan Browning own and operate it today, and the company is a member of the Putnam County Chamber of Commerce. As described on gatortimber.com, read 23 September 2026.

Georgia-Pacific is a Koch, Inc. company making building products, cellulose, packaging, recycled fibre and consumer tissue brands, and it says it has more than 150 locations and over 30,000 employees, with facilities in nearly 30 states including Florida. It traces itself to a single building in Augusta, Georgia in 1927, and describes maximising recycling, reducing energy use and sustainable forestry as its stewardship priorities. Its locations page is a state-by-state selector, and none of the corporate pages read for this listing names this Palatka wood and fiber supply office or says what it buys, so nothing above describes the Palatka operation itself and the 1927 date is the company's rather than this office's. As described on gp.com, read 22 September 2026.

Georgia-Pacific describes itself as a maker of building products, cellulose, packaging, recycled fibre and consumer paper goods - Quilted Northern, Brawny and Dixie among its household brands - operating more than 150 locations worldwide with over 30,000 employees, and it says it has invested $15 billion into its operations since 2014. The company dates its founding to 1927 in a single building in Augusta, Georgia, and is a Koch, Inc. company; that 1927 date belongs to the corporation, not to this Perry record. Its locations page lists Florida among nearly 30 states but does not itemise any individual Florida facility. The single mention of Perry anywhere in the pages read is on Georgia-Pacific's own history timeline, which records that in 2023 the company closed its Foley Cellulose mill in Perry, Florida; the site says nothing about what wood and fibre buying, if any, continues from the One Buckeye Drive address under which the Florida Forest Service register carries this listing, as described on gp.com, read 22 September 2026.

The Florida Forest Service's forest products buyer register carries a long entry for this business, covering cabbage palm, crooked wood, palmetto, pinestraw, longleaf, upland timber, wetland timber and other products, together with chopping, discing, hand, machine and V-blade planting, herbicide, mowing, raking, scalping and prescribed burning, across 67 Florida counties. The company's own website does not mention buying timber or any forest product at all, so the purchasing side of this listing rests on the register alone and a landowner with timber to sell should confirm it directly. What the site describes is a land and vegetation contractor. It says Ground Level was "founded in 2005 by a small team of professionals dedicated to providing our customers quality products in Ecosystem Restoration", that its staff "bring over 100 years of combined experience", and that it works in three divisions: ecosystem restoration, environmental services and property management, and industrial support. Its customers "range from small private businesses to large industrial clients", including state and federal agencies, infrastructure and energy companies and the mining industry, and the project it features is erosion control within the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan. The published work includes erosion control with silt fence, floc logs, coconut matting, hydroseeding and sodding; brush removal and mastication with rubber-track, rubber-tyre and steel-track carriers and an excavator-mounted brush cutter; commercial mowing, landscaping and irrigation; bush hog and tractor work, earthwork, excavation and hauling; fencing, pump and pipe crews and industrial labour crews. On job size it offers a range rather than a floor: "whether your project is one acre or a thousand". Credentials are published against named staff rather than the company, among them FDACS licensed pesticide applicators, a DOF prescribed burn manager, an FDEP qualified stormwater inspector and FFWCC gopher tortoise authorised agents. As described on gliearth.com, read 23 September 2026.

Loncala, Inc. owns and manages roughly 23,000 acres of timber and agricultural land in north Florida, with every operation run from a headquarters built in 2007 on its ranch property at High Springs. Its about page lays out the whole arc: chartered in April 1920 as Loncala Phosphate Company, it tried turpentine, tung oil groves, building materials, cattle and crop farming before soft phosphate operations beginning in 1940 funded the land clearing and site preparation that supported a reforestation program started in 1950. Phosphate mining ceased in February 2006 after 85 years. Timber harvesting began in the early 1960s; the company says harvest from its own lands has grown from 20,000 tons a year in the early 1980s to 150,000 tons today, and the harvesting operation overall from 50,000 tons to roughly 200,000 tons. Its forestry page states that Loncala grows and harvests pine from company lands for about half the year and spends the remainder producing timber purchased from private landowners or working as a contract producer for industrial timber companies, and that it owns and harvests from Hamilton County on the Georgia line south to below Marion County in central Florida. It says it is actively seeking timberland owners interested in selling timber and will appraise standing timber at no cost, through its forester Tim Odom. Felling is done with a feller buncher, whose operator sorts to pulpwood, large and small chip-n-saw, ply logs and poles; trees are limbed through a gate, skidded to a ramp and sorted again by a log loader. The company holds the Master Logger designation, adheres to Best Management Practices, notes Florida's 1999 Outstanding Logger of the Year award and a 2000 Southeastern Region Logger of the Year title, and employs 15 to 20 full-time people across land management, farming and logging. As described on loncala.com, read 23 September 2026.

This is the Florida Forest Service's forest products buyer entry for Natives of Corkscrew Nursery + Environmental, whose register subcategories read bedding, hand planting, herbicide, longleaf, mowing, palmetto, pinestraw, upland timber and wetland timber across fourteen Florida counties. The company's own website does not describe buying timber, and nothing here should be read as a timber-purchase claim; what it does describe is a native-plant nursery and an environmental restoration contractor working from Peace Road in Lee County. Since 2015, the site says, Natives of Corkscrew has grown to be one of the largest all-native nurseries in Florida, specializing in native plants, grasses, shrubs and trees, with an extensive native species inventory, help selecting species for a landscape project, prompt statewide delivery, and a contract growing service it describes as the way to be confident that a project's plant needs will be fulfilled according to specification and on budget. On the environmental side it offers preserve restoration, lake restoration and enhancement, littoral shelf maintenance and protected species management, naming gopher tortoise work as its primary focus and gopher tortoise relocation as a specialty. Its environmental services list covers FDEP wetland and upland determinations, exotic vegetation removal and maintenance, preserve and lake monitoring, gopher tortoise and burrowing owl surveys with FWC permitting, and licensed mangrove trimming, and it states that it is licensed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to perform burrowing owl permitting. Work is offered to individuals, businesses, organizations and government agencies, and the nursery is open Tuesday through Saturday with Monday by appointment. As described on nativesofcorkscrew.com, read 23 September 2026.

This Graceville entry is the timber-buying side of Rex Lumber. The Florida Forest Service vendor register lists it as a forest products buyer working in 23 Florida counties, under the subcategories upland timber and wetland timber. Rex Lumber's own site does not use the name Rex Lumber Co. for a separate buying company; it puts procurement under Woodlands Timber, which the site lists among the operations based at Graceville alongside the mill, the corporate office and Rex Transportation. The Woodlands Timber page names a Graceville procurement manager, a senior procurement forester and a procurement forester, and the two cell numbers it publishes for the first two of those match the phone numbers carried in this listing; the mailing address here, P.O. Box 7, is the same box the site gives for the Graceville mill. The company describes itself as a fourth-generation, family-owned lumber manufacturer established in the 1920s - its history page says W. D. McRae founded Rex Lumber Company in Graceville in 1926 - operating four mills in Florida, Mississippi and Alabama, with the Graceville site bought back by the family at a bankruptcy auction in 2001 and running again from March 2003. The site states that the McRae family also owns Apalachee Pole Company, Woodlands Timber, Rex Transportation and over 16,000 acres of timber land in Florida, Alabama and Georgia, and that the mills turn harvested timber into southern yellow pine lumber. Nothing on the site sets out a minimum tract size, a payment basis or the terms on which timber is bought, so a landowner would have to ask. As described on rex-lumber.com, read 23 September 2026.

TerraWorx Land Group, Inc (TLG) describes itself as "a multi-disciplinary company whose staff has been offering our clients a multitude of ecological, environmental, land management and property services for over 25 years," adding that "Paramount is our ability to provide creative and innovative ideas in an effort to resolve a myriad of issues, design challenges, and regulatory concerns that our clients often encounter." The home page carries the line "Other's will tell you what you can't do, We tell you what you can." Its services page groups the work under three headings. Ecological services: preliminary ecological assessments including GIS and LIDAR evaluations, wetland assessment and delineation, protected species assessment and surveys, regulatory permitting covering both State Environmental Resource Permitting and Federal 404 wetland permitting, wetland mitigation bank design, permitting and management, mitigation design and planting, invasive species control, and "project design alternatives to maximize site use while minimizing mitigation/construction costs." Environmental services: Phase I Environmental Site Assessments, Phase II ESAs and testing, environmental remediation and clean-up, brownfields and incentive programs, and development design alternatives. Land management services: "heavy under brushing utilizing skid steer mounted grinding head mowers," herbicide application, removal of invasives such as Chinese tallow and Brazilian pepper, installation of native plant material for habitat restoration, timber management and planning, wildlife habitat design and management, and Natural Resource Conservation Service grant programs. Its image gallery, captioned as "some of our highlighted services," shows before-and-after mowing and prescribed burning. The only geography the company publishes is two offices — 88 Riberia St. Suite 360, St. Augustine, FL 32084 and 110N Gross Rd, Kingsland, GA 31548 — with no service area, counties or radius named anywhere; the home page is titled "Environmental Consulting | TerraWorx Land Group | United States." No founding year is given (the "over 25 years" is a staff-experience claim), no staff member is named, no certification or licence number appears, and no minimum tract size is published. Nothing on the site says the company buys standing timber: "timber management and planning" is one line among roughly twenty. This listing is filed under timber buyers; nothing the company publishes supports that reading, and the description above should be taken as the company's own account of what it does. (source: terraworxlandgroup.com, read 23 September 2026)

Treecycle Land Clearing Inc. works out of Lake Worth in Palm Beach County and is carried on the Florida Forest Service vendor database across 28 Florida counties, from Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe north to Alachua, Bay and Jefferson. Its own site describes a different trade from the one the register files it under. In its words, “We specialize in clearing and grubbing large properties,” with projects that include golf courses, airports, shopping malls, highways, subdivisions, reservoirs and landfills, and “from small tree removal projects to large-scale commercial developments.” Alongside clearing it lists forestry mulching, erosion control, tree protection, grapple services, hauling, tree removal by removal, cutting in place or Fecon mowing, hurricane debris relief, and clean vegetation disposal; the erosion-control work covers silt fence, floating and staked turbidity barrier and tree protection, using two types of trencher, rock wheel and track type, so the crew “can tackle any South Florida terrain.” The site prioritises protecting Florida native and other protected vegetation as specified per project before any clearing takes place, and says the company cultivates the land and re-uses the material in an eco-friendly manner, under the masthead motto “Preserving the best and Recycling the rest.” Nothing on the site describes buying standing timber or dealing in logs, species, grades or stumpage: the only prices it publishes are tipping fees it charges to receive material at its own disposal site, vegetation including clean logs, yard waste and stumps at $4–$6 per yard, so the money runs the opposite way from a timber buyer's. Read it as a land-clearing and site-work contractor that also operates a disposal and recycling yard. The company says it was established in 2005 but carries over 40 years in the construction industry, and that it is family owned and operated; three of the principals named on its team page share the surname Casey. It has opened a second site at 5000 SW Green Farms Ln in Palm City, in Martin County, as a disposal location for clean material and vegetation, and it names Stuart, Martin County, St. Cloud, Broward and SWA among the landfills it serves. Free estimates are offered. The site says it will take on a job “whether 1 acre or 1,000 acres”, so one acre is the smallest job it states it will come out for. (source: treecycleinc.com, read 23 September 2026)

USA Mulch, LLC manufactures and installs premium mulch throughout the state of Florida, producing it at a manufacturing facility on Gator Road in Fort Myers that the company calls state of the art. It says it has been in business for over 30 years and that it facilitates the entire mulching process in house, listing harvesting, grinding, bagging, coloring and installation as its own steps. Wholesale mulch is offered bagged and in bulk in cypress, pine, pine bark nuggets, pine bark mini nuggets, red, gold, premium brown and playground grades, and installation is described as work for commercial properties covering weed control, water protection and soil enrichment. The company publishes application guidance of about four inches for new mulch and three inches when remulching, with a calculator for quantities. It describes availability throughout Southwest Florida and countless additional Florida locations, names no counties, and publishes nothing about buying timber from landowners. As described on usamulchllc.com, read 23 September 2026.

Fifteen counties, as the buyer itself lists them with the Florida Forest Service: Baker, Bay, Brevard, Broward, Calhoun, Citrus, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla, Walton and Washington. That is a panhandle core around the Hosford office at 12995 NE SR65 in Liberty County, with outliers on the Atlantic coast and in south-east Florida that sit a long way from the rest — they are reproduced here as the state's Forest Products Buyers register carries them. The Primary Forest Products Network separately lists a Georgia-Pacific oriented strand board mill at the same Hosford address, so this buying desk and a mill share a road. Georgia-Pacific's own site does not describe the Hosford operation at all: gp.com has no page for it, and the locations section is a state selector that names Florida without naming a facility. The site describes the company instead. Georgia-Pacific says it was founded in 1927 in Augusta, Georgia, as the Georgia Hardwood Lumber Company, a hardwood lumber wholesaler operating five sawmills in the South; it took its present name in 1956, moved its headquarters from Portland to Atlanta in 1982, and was acquired by Koch in 2005, becoming a privately held, wholly owned subsidiary of what it now calls a Koch, Inc. company. It states more than 30,000 employees, more than 150 locations worldwide and $15 billion invested into its operations since 2014, and lists pine solutions among its seven businesses alongside building products, cellulose, consumer products, GP PRO, packaging and recycling. On stewardship it says it works to maximise recycling, reduce energy use and set the standard in sustainable forestry. Nothing on the site sets out species, product classes, tract sizes or terms for this buyer. As described on gp.com, read 23 September 2026.