F&W Forestry Services, Inc.
About F&W Forestry Services, Inc.
F&W Forestry Services lists this office at Marianna, in Jackson County, with the Florida Forest Service, and names sixteen Florida counties as its service area — the western panhandle from Escambia and Okaloosa across Bay, Calhoun, Liberty, Gulf, Franklin, Jackson and Wakulla to Leon, and a separate northern block around Alachua, Baker, Bradford and Citrus. The services listed there are property management, timber sales, reforestation, forest inventory and mapping, and prescribed burning, backed by a Florida Certified Burner credential. 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-local-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, having grown from 25 employees in two states to 100 in eight states over the 1990s and expanded into South America and Europe since. 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 — and on timber sales the firm describes pre-harvest valuation reporting on species, age and condition, sale layout 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 and road maintenance oversight. As described on fwforestry.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.
Timber AppraisalAn estimate of what your standing timber is worth in dollars, based on how much there is, its quality, and current prices. When you are selling, settling an estate, dividing property, or need a value for taxes or insurance.What does this mean? → — not listed
works out what your standing timber is worth
Timber Cruise & Volume EstimateA field measurement of your standing trees — their species, sizes, and quality — that adds up to how much wood you actually have. Before you sell, so you go in knowing roughly what is out there rather than taking a buyer's word for it.What does this mean? → — not listed
measures and grades what's actually out there
Timber Sale & Contract AdministrationRunning the sale for you: advertising the timber, taking bids, writing the contract, and overseeing the logging so the agreed terms are met. When you want someone on your side handling the whole sale rather than dealing with buyers and loggers yourself.What does this mean? → — not listed
runs the sale and handles the contract
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.
Everything they're registered for
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