Workman Forestry, LLC

About Workman Forestry, LLC

Workman Forestry, LLC presents itself on its own website as a Gainesville tree service and arborist practice rather than a timber-side consulting firm, serving residential, commercial and government customers throughout Gainesville and surrounding areas. The arborist work covers tree inspections for health and structural integrity, formal risk assessment using the ISA TRAQ methodology when it is needed, judging whether and how urgently a tree should come out, species selection and planning for a healthy urban forest, and helping owners understand local regulations and navigate permitting; the firm says its arborist will consult on a single tree or on a larger property. On the ground it handles planned and emergency removals, piecing trees down with bucket trucks or lightweight spider lifts that reach into tight spaces, laying ground protection mats to limit rutting, and chipping debris on site so nothing is left piled at the curb. It also prunes for clearance, directional growth, weight management in older trees, wind resistance and deadwood over buildings, offers structural pruning of young trees, and is explicit about what bad pruning does to a tree when a customer has inherited someone else's work. Live oaks get their own discussion: the firm says they want pruning every three to five years. The chips do not go to waste - fresh mulch for weed control and pathways and decomposed mulch for building soil organic matter are delivered in the Gainesville area, with raw material for hugelkultur and logs for owners who mill their own. The firm is insured and gives free estimates. Tom Workman, owner and founder, holds an M.S. in Forest Ecology from the University of Florida and previously worked as a Biologist II for the Florida Park Service, as Land Manager for the St. Johns River Water Management District, and as Urban Forester at the University of Florida; he founded Workman Forestry in 2010. Kelly McPherson joined in 2017 and became an ISA Certified Arborist in 2019; she holds an M.S. in Botany from the University of Florida, the Tree Risk Assessment Qualification and the Florida ISA Prescription Pruning Qualification, and brings six years as a Biologist for the Florida Park Service and eleven with the Alachua County Forever Land Conservation Program. Separately from the website, the firm is filed with the Florida Forest Service as a forest management consultant across 13 Florida counties, listing timber sales, site prep and planting, mowing, mulching, fire lines, prescribed burning, roads, boundary clearing and property maintenance - work the website itself does not mention. (source: workmanforestry.com, read 22 September 2026)

Can they handle a timber sale?

Selling standing timber properly takes three things. Here's what the state register credits this firm with.

This firm isn't credited with all three, which doesn't make it a worse forester — plenty specialise in management planning, wildlife or wetlands. It does mean that if your goal is to sell timber, you'd likely need someone else for the part that's missing.

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