MLM Private Forester, Inc.
About MLM Private Forester, Inc.
MLM Private Forester, Inc. trades on its own website simply as Private Forester, Inc., and the site is built around two halves of one offer: forest management and wildlife management. On the forestry side it describes overseeing harvesting operations and site preparation, timber sales, timber health work using aerial and ground surveillance to catch insect and disease outbreaks, prescribed burning, and tree planting done in the dormant winter months, most often after 1 December and before 15 March. Its own list of forester services runs from locating boundary lines and preparing a forest management plan through estimating how much timber there is and what it is worth, timing the harvest to the market, preparing and marketing the sale package, developing the sale contract, obtaining permits and supervising the logging operation to contract. It acts as the landowner's agent in a sale rather than as a buyer, and argues the case plainly: for many growers a timber sale happens only two or three times in a lifetime, and twenty or thirty years of growth can lose much of its value through one or two mistakes at the point of sale. The other half of the business is game. It publishes trophy deer management with harvest recommendations made each season, waterfowl and duck management, turkey management for Osceola and Eastern birds, food plots for turkey, quail, dove and deer, soil evaluation and planting, and hunting lease management, and argues that running wildlife work alongside timber management lifts both a landowner's income and the value of the land. Roughly half of what the firm publishes about itself is hunting and habitat work rather than timber, which is worth knowing before calling a listing filed under forestry consulting. The firm's forestry page carries the name Mitchell L. McElroy. The site itself publishes no service area, no founding date and no telephone number; the 67 Florida counties on this listing come from the firm's own filing with the Florida Forest Service. One practical note: the site answers only over plain http, as the https address refuses the connection. (source: privateforester.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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Counties covered
This consulting forester covers the entire state of Florida. See Florida by county.
MLM Private Forester, Inc.
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