Selling Timber in Wayne County, NC

Most of the coastal plain is in range here — Northampton and Halifax in the north, down through the Neuse and Cape Fear country to Brunswick — thirty-four counties in all, well above the register's median of twenty, with Caswell, Person, Lee and Moore attached on the piedmont side. Appraisal, cruise and sale administration are all listed, along with prescribed burning, herbicide application, forest real estate and forest taxation. Registration 578 is among the older on the register, and the firm holds ACF membership, which is limited to full-time consultants.

Eighteen counties across the southeastern and south-central coastal plain — Sampson, Duplin, Cumberland, Robeson, Bladen, Columbus and Brunswick, reaching north to Johnston, Wake, Wilson and Nash. The essentials for a timber sale are all on the entry: appraisal, cruise, and administration of the sale through to contract. Thirteen services in total, with prescribed burning, herbicide application, wildlife management, recreation and forest taxation rounding it out. No website appears on the register.

Eight services and nothing extra: management plans and mapping, reforestation, stand improvement, appraisal, cruising, sale administration, logging engineering, and utilization and marketing. That is a narrower list than roughly nine in ten firms on the register carry, and pointedly built around getting wood measured, valued and sold. Twenty-one counties, spread from Alamance and Orange in the piedmont east through Wake, Johnston and Nash and down into Sampson, Duplin and Pitt.

Appraisal, cruising and sale administration are all on this Wilson firm's register entry — the three pieces that let a forester value a stand, measure it, and carry the sale through to contract. Coverage is seventeen counties in the northern and eastern coastal plain, from Franklin and Nash out to Hyde and Washington on the sounds. Two less common additions sit alongside the usual work: forest taxation and environmental impact statements. Registration 1865 is one of the newer numbers on the state register.

Registration number 273 is the sixth-oldest of the 178 registrations on the state register — one of the longest-tenured entries anywhere in this directory. The footprint is small and coherent: thirteen counties across the upper coastal plain, Wilson, Nash, Edgecombe, Pitt, Halifax and Northampton among them. Nine services, clustered on the sale itself — appraisal, cruise and sale administration — with forest taxation and environmental impact statements alongside. SAF member; no website listed.

Fifty-nine counties from a one-forester office in Beulaville — effectively the whole coastal plain, from the Currituck and Dare marshes south to Brunswick, plus a long reach west through the Triad into Surry and Yadkin. Eighteen services puts this firm near the top of the register for breadth, and two of them are worth noticing: wetland delineation and environmental impact statements, which matter if the tract has bottomland or a permitting question attached to it. Valuation, cruising and sale administration are all covered. No website is listed.

Surveying and wetland delineation sit on this firm's service list alongside the forestry work, which matters more than it sounds: a boundary question or a wet corner of a tract can be dealt with on the same visit as the cruise. Sixteen counties, most of them in the southeastern coastal plain between Sampson and the lower Cape Fear, with a few reaching north to Wake and Franklin and one as far west as Gaston. Appraisal, cruising and sale administration are all on the register, so the firm can carry a sale from valuation through to contract.

Registration 536 sits 21st oldest among the 178 registrations on the N.C. Forest Service register — a long run on the state's list. Seventeen counties, all of them east: the tidewater and lower coastal plain from Beaufort and Hyde down through Craven, Jones and Onslow, with Edgecombe and Wilson at the inland edge. Appraisal, cruise and sale administration are all listed, plus forest taxation, prescribed burning and recreation management. ACF membership, which the association restricts to full-time consultants, and SAF. No website is listed.

A tight cluster of six adjoining counties — Harnett, Cumberland, Hoke, Sampson, Johnston and Wayne, the inner coastal plain around Dunn and Fayetteville. Very few firms on the register work an area this small. The service list is not small at all: fourteen entries, including wetland delineation, environmental impact statements, forest taxation and forest real estate on top of the appraisal, cruise and sale administration a competitive sale needs. Local ground, wide toolkit.

A short service list, and a focused one: management plans, reforestation, stand improvement, the three timber-sale services, forest real estate, taxation, marketing and wildlife. Ten in all, near the narrow end of the register — this reads as timber-sale work rather than full-spectrum land consulting. What matters most is present, though: the firm can appraise a stand, cruise it and run the sale. Fifteen counties across the eastern coastal plain, from Halifax and Nash down through Pitt and Lenoir to the Pamlico and Carteret coast.

Coverage across twenty-seven counties of the coastal plain, from Halifax and Northampton down through the Neuse basin to Onslow and Pender, and east into Hyde, Dare and Tyrrell. The service list is short — management plans, reforestation, stand improvement, appraisal, cruising, sale administration, logging engineering, taxation and marketing — which is the working end of a timber sale rather than a full-service consultancy.

Every service the state's A–U schedule covers is on this record — all twenty, more than 98 percent of firms on the register. So the timber-sale core of appraisal, cruise and sale administration sits alongside surveying, wetland delineation, prescribed burning, Christmas tree management and urban forestry. A landowner with a boundary question or a wet corner can get both answered on the same visit as the cruise. Coverage spans forty counties, from the north-central piedmont down through the sandhills and out to the southeastern coast. Memberships in the Society of American Foresters and the International Society of Arboriculture are recorded; no website is.

One of the oldest registrations in the state register sits behind this firm — number 517, eighteenth-oldest of the 178 listed — and there are two registered foresters here rather than one, which means the practice does not rest on a single person. Fifteen counties, compact: Wake and Franklin east through Nash and Edgecombe to Bertie, Martin and Northampton. Sixteen services in all, with forest taxation, recreation and Christmas tree management alongside the appraisal, cruise and sale administration a timber sale actually turns on.

The territory here is essentially the whole coastal plain, Virginia line to South Carolina, forty-five counties in all, plus a run up into Franklin, Granville, Vance and Warren. Read the service list closely before calling: the register credits timber appraisal and a cruise and volume estimate, but not timber sale and contract administration — so running and administering the sale itself would fall to someone else. What is listed is management planning and mapping, reforestation, stand improvement, prescribed burning, and utilization and marketing. Website listed.

Eleven counties across the lower Neuse and the central coastal plain — Craven, Pitt, Onslow, Lenoir and their neighbors — worked by a single registered forester. The register credits the firm with timber appraisal and cruising but not sale administration, so a landowner planning a competitive sale should ask directly how that piece gets handled. Where the entry runs unusually deep is the land-management side: prescribed burning, herbicide application, wetland delineation, wildlife work and Christmas tree management sit alongside the planning and reforestation services.

Every county in North Carolina is listed against this firm — all 100 — which puts it in the small group on the register that will work anywhere in the state. The service list is narrow by comparison: ten entries, built tight around the sale itself, with appraisal, cruising and sale and contract administration at the middle and forest taxation, utilization and marketing, urban forestry and stewardship plans around them. Both ACF and SAF memberships are recorded. One registered forester covers that ground, which is worth knowing when you're arranging a visit.

Northeastern North Carolina, from the Albemarle counties of Camden, Currituck and Perquimans down through the Roanoke and Tar river country to Wake and Johnston — twenty-five counties in all. Twelve services, a working forester's list rather than a full-service consultancy: appraisal, cruise and sale administration, reforestation, timber stand improvement, prescribed burning and marketing. Both the Association of Consulting Foresters and the Society of American Foresters are on file, and the ACF admits full-time consultants only.

Based in Tarboro and working twenty-two counties across the northeastern coastal plain and up into the northern piedmont — Bertie, Hertford and Gates on one side, Orange and Alamance on the other. Fifteen services is a broad list, and it covers both halves of a landowner's problem: appraisal, cruising and sale administration for the harvest itself, then prescribed burning, herbicide, wildlife management and stewardship plans for what happens to the ground afterward. Forest taxation is on the entry as well.

Effectively the eastern two-thirds of the state: sixty-eight counties covering every county on the coastal plain and most of the piedmont, which puts this among the widest-reaching listings on the register. Two registered foresters, the older registration numbered 914. The sale trio is present — appraisal, cruise, contract administration. Surveying is on the service list as well, alongside forest real estate and urban forestry, so a boundary or title question does not need a second firm.

Seven registered foresters is the top of the range on the state register, and it comes attached to eighty-four counties — mountains to the Outer Banks, with very little of North Carolina out of reach. Scale like that means a landowner isn't waiting on one person's calendar, and it means the firm doesn't vanish when someone retires. Nineteen services: wetland delineation, environmental impact statements, forest taxation and urban forestry, alongside the appraisal, cruise and sale-administration combination a competitive timber sale actually runs on. ACF and SAF.

Two registered foresters and a short, pointed list: management plans, reforestation, stand improvement, the three timber-sale services — and surveying. That last one is uncommon and useful, because a firm that can cruise your timber and also run your lines settles a boundary question on the same visit. Fourteen counties, closely grouped from Wake and Franklin east to Bertie and Wayne.

From Louisburg the coverage runs west to Durham and Orange, south through Wake and Johnston, and east into Edgecombe and Northampton — twenty-one counties straddling the line where the northern piedmont gives way to the coastal plain. The register lists the full sale set: appraisal, cruise, and administration of the sale itself. Logging engineering, herbicide application and stand improvement round it out, a list built around getting timber cut and the ground back into production rather than around consulting extras.

Registration 477 is fifteenth-oldest of the 178 on the state register — one of the longest-standing entries in this directory. The reach is broad to match: thirty-nine counties running from Caswell and Stokes on the Virginia line down through the Triangle and the sandhills to Brunswick and the coast. Fifteen services, with appraisal, cruising and sale administration at the center and prescribed burning, logging engineering, forest taxation and forest real estate around them. For an owner who wants competing bids rather than one offer, that middle trio is the part that matters.

Seventeen services is a long list by this register's standards, and the mix is unusual: urban forestry sits next to wetland delineation, prescribed burning and logging engineering, backed by membership in the International Society of Arboriculture rather than the usual forestry bodies. Twenty-two counties across the central and northeastern coastal plain, from Wayne and Johnston out to Hyde and Tyrrell. Appraisal, cruising and sale administration are all listed, so a sale can be valued, measured and run to contract. No website is on file.

Few entries in this directory reach back further: registration number 472 ranks fourteenth-oldest of the 178 registrations on the N.C. Forest Service register. The territory is the northeastern coastal plain and the Albemarle — nineteen counties from Warren, Halifax and Nash east through Bertie, Hertford and Gates to Currituck, Camden and Pasquotank. Ten services, focused rather than sprawling: appraisal, cruise and sale administration, plus forest taxation, forest real estate, and utilization and marketing. SAF member. No website listed.

Forty-six counties is wide coverage for a one-forester firm — the register puts it in the top fifteen percent for reach, running from the Rockingham and Forsyth line east through the Triangle and out to Pitt, Onslow and Pender. Appraisal, cruising and sale administration are all listed, so the firm can value a stand, measure what's on it, and run the sale through to contract. The rest of the list stays practical: reforestation, stand improvement, herbicide work, wildlife management, and forest taxation for owners thinking past the harvest.

For a tract anywhere between Raleigh and the coast, this firm's whole range covers that corridor: eighteen counties running from Wake and Franklin east through Johnston, Wayne and Lenoir out to Carteret, Pender and New Hanover. Appraisal, cruising and sale administration are all on the entry, which is the combination that lets a firm value a stand, measure it, and run the sale itself. Eleven services in all — a working timber list rather than a broad environmental practice. No website is listed.

The office is in Charlottesville, Virginia, a good way over the state line, but the North Carolina coverage is nothing marginal: 64 counties, wider than 93 percent of firms on the register. That takes in the whole piedmont and coastal plain east of the mountains, from Currituck and Brunswick inland to Surry and Rockingham. Two registered foresters, fifteen services — wetland delineation and environmental impact work sitting alongside the appraisal, cruise and sale-administration set — and ACF membership.

Wide reach without quite being statewide: thirty-nine counties, from Guilford and Orange in the central piedmont east across the coastal plain to Craven, Onslow and Pender, with the Sandhills filling in between. Seventeen services, including logging engineering and wetland delineation and the appraisal-cruise-sale-administration set that lets a single firm value the stand, measure it and carry the sale to contract. Registration 610 is thirty-second oldest of the 178 on the register. ACF and SAF; no website listed.

Seven registered foresters — as many as any firm on the state register — and sixty counties covered, which together make this one of the largest consulting operations working in North Carolina. The reach runs from the foothills in Burke and McDowell across the piedmont and the sandhills to the coast at Brunswick, Onslow and Carteret. The full sale package is here: appraisal, cruise, and running the sale through to contract. Nineteen services in all, including prescribed burning, wetland delineation, environmental impact statements and forest taxation — which matter when a timber sale is one piece of a larger land or estate question.

Concentration is the whole point here — nine adjoining counties around New Bern, taking in the lower Neuse, the Pamlico and the coastal plain behind them, about as tight a footprint as this directory holds. Eleven services, a working forester's list rather than a full-service consultancy, but it takes in the three that matter for a sale: appraisal, cruise, and administering the sale through to contract. Logging engineering is on there too, which speaks to tracts with access problems.

Registration number 208 is the fifth-oldest on the state register, a tenure very few listings can match. Thirty-six counties spread across the central piedmont, the Sandhills and the inner coastal plain, from Rockingham and Caswell on the Virginia line down to Scotland and Robeson. Eleven services, a focused list: appraisal, cruise and sale administration, reforestation, timber stand improvement, herbicide application, forest real estate and stewardship plans.

A piedmont practice with a long reach east — thirty-one counties from Surry and Stokes on the Virginia line, across the Triad and the Triangle, then out through Johnston and Wayne to Wilson, with Robeson and Cumberland picked up to the south. Logging engineering sits on the service list next to the appraisal, cruise and sale administration a sale runs on, which is the difference between marking a stand and working out how to get equipment onto it. Fourteen services in total. The register lists no association membership and no website.

Surveying, wetland delineation, environmental impact statements, prescribed burning, urban forestry, forest taxation — the register lists twenty services here, as many as any firm on it carries, and appraisal, cruising and sale administration are among them. The territory is thirty-six counties, reaching from the northern piedmont around Durham and Granville east across the coastal plain to Currituck, Dare and Hyde, with a southern arm into Cumberland, Hoke and Robeson.

Twenty-three counties covering the Albemarle and the northeastern coastal plain — Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Chowan, Gates, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington — then south through Martin and Pitt toward Craven and Duplin. That is the low, wet eastern end of the state, and working it is a particular kind of knowledge. The full sale package is on the register: appraisal, cruise, sale administration. ACF membership marks this as a full-time consulting practice, and the registration sits in the oldest quarter of the state register.

Forty-six counties, close to half the state, and nearly all of it east of the piedmont: the Roanoke and Tar drainages, the full northeastern coastal plain, south through Craven and Onslow, out to Dare, Hyde and Tyrrell, with a western reach into Guilford, Alamance and Durham. Very few firms on the register cover that much ground with a single registered forester. Fifteen services, from appraisal, cruise and sale administration through prescribed burning, herbicide work, recreation and urban forestry. No website is listed.

Membership in the Association of Consulting Foresters is the thing to notice here. ACF takes full-time consultants only, so this is the firm's actual business rather than something done around other work. Thirty-three counties, running from Guilford and Rockingham in the northern piedmont across the Triangle and down through the sandhills into Scotland, Robeson and Pender. Sixteen services, including prescribed burning, forest taxation and urban forestry, and the appraisal, cruise and sale administration set a competitive sale depends on.

Seven services, and they are the ones that sell timber: management plans and mapping, stand improvement, appraisal, cruise, sale and contract administration, utilization and marketing, wildlife. That's a working forester's list rather than a full-service consultancy. The territory is wide for it — 30 counties taking in most of the coastal plain, from the Albemarle and Dare south through Craven and Onslow, with a reach inland to Franklin and Warren. Edenton office; no website listed on the register.

Three registered foresters is more than most firms on this register carry, and it means the work does not stall if one person is tied up or retires. The office is in Capron, Virginia — over the line — with coverage across twenty-two counties of northeastern North Carolina, from Warren, Halifax and Nash east through Bertie and Gates to Currituck, Dare, Hyde and Tyrrell. Appraisal, cruise and sale administration are all listed among thirteen services, and the firm belongs to the Association of Consulting Foresters, which takes full-time consultants only.

All 100 counties, which only a handful of firms on the state register can claim — wherever the tract sits in North Carolina, this one covers it. Two registered foresters, and the older of the two registrations is number 482, sixteenth-oldest of the 178 on the register. Appraisal, cruise and sale administration are all here, so a landowner can value the stand, measure it and run the sale through to contract in one place. Seventeen services in all, out as far as Christmas tree management, urban forestry and forest taxation. The firm holds Association of Consulting Foresters membership, which is limited to full-time consultants.

Fifty-eight counties is a big footprint — wider than nine out of ten firms on the register — and it stretches from the mountain counties around Watauga and Avery clear across the piedmont into the inner coastal plain at Wayne, Greene and Edgecombe. Two registered foresters, so the work does not stall if one is booked. Appraisal, cruising and sale administration are all listed, and unusually the firm pairs woodland work with urban forestry and an arboriculture credential, which matters if the tract sits on the edge of a growing town.

If your land is in the Albemarle — Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Chowan — this is a firm working from inside it, and the coverage carries twenty-nine counties down the coastal plain through Pitt and Lenoir to Onslow and Carteret. The full sale set is on the register: appraisal, cruise, sale administration. Forest taxation and forest real estate round out an eleven-service list. No prescribed burning is listed, which is worth knowing if that's part of what you need. ACF and SAF.

Ninety-two of North Carolina's hundred counties, and the eight it leaves out are all in the far southwestern mountains — Cherokee, Graham, Swain and their neighbors. Everywhere else in the state is on the list, which makes this one of the widest footprints on the register. The office, though, is in Columbia, South Carolina: registered to work here, but based over the line. Appraisal, cruise and sale administration are all listed, alongside prescribed burning, forest taxation, forest real estate and stewardship plans.

The office is across the state line in Suffolk, Virginia, and the work listed here is not a timber sale. The register credits this firm with cruising and management mapping, but not with appraisal or sale administration — two of the three pieces a landowner needs to run a competitive sale. What it does list is environmental impact statements, wetland delineation, wildlife management and stewardship plans across eighteen counties in northeastern North Carolina, from the Albemarle counties inland to Nash, Franklin and Wilson. A six-service entry, and a narrow one on purpose.

Work concentrated in eastern North Carolina — the inner coastal plain around Greenville, Goldsboro and Kinston, out to Carteret and Pamlico on the sound — sixteen counties in all, run from an office over the line in Dorchester, South Carolina. The register credits the firm with appraisal, cruising and sale administration, the set a competitive timber sale needs, along with reforestation, herbicide application and stewardship planning. It belongs to the Society of American Foresters.

All one hundred counties — one of the few listings on the register that covers the entire state. The registration here is number 8, the second-oldest of the 178 registrations on the register, which is about as long a tenure as North Carolina forestry has to offer. Beyond the sale work of appraisal, cruise and contract administration, this firm surveys, so a boundary question and a timber cruise can be settled on the same visit. Christmas tree management, wetland delineation and environmental impact statements are also listed.

Statewide coverage — all 100 North Carolina counties — from an office in Gainesville, Georgia. Fifteen services are recorded, including the three that make a timber sale work: appraisal, cruising, and sale and contract administration. Prescribed burning, herbicide application, urban forestry and stewardship plans fill out the rest. The register carries this entry under the name US Forest Service, with one N.C. Registered Forester and no website given.

Sixty-three North Carolina counties is a wide net — foothills at Wilkes and McDowell, the whole piedmont, and coastal plain out to Brunswick and Craven — and it is worked from an office in Athens, Georgia. One thing to settle before hiring: the register credits this firm with timber appraisal and cruising but not with timber sale and contract administration, so if you want someone to run the sale itself and hold the contract, ask directly. Twelve services otherwise, prescribed burning, herbicide application and wildlife management among them.

Worth reading the service list closely here. The register credits this entry with timber cruising and sale administration but not timber appraisal — so the valuation step most landowners want before going to market isn't among the listed services. What is listed is broad: 48 counties across the northeastern piedmont and most of the coastal plain, plus reforestation, forest real estate, wildlife management and stewardship plans. The office address is Atlanta, Georgia. No website is on file.

The Moncure address is Hunt's Pittsboro Woodyard, one of four the company runs — the others are at Youngsville, Spring Hope and Sanford — and all four take pine and hardwood saw logs plus pine and hardwood pulpwood, accepting, in the company's words, “loads of all sizes”. Hunt Forest Resources was founded in 2004 and now employs more than 40 people across six North Carolina locations, among them Registered Foresters, timber buyers and licensed real estate professionals. It publishes annual figures of 7,000 acres of timberland managed, 56,000 trees planted, 5.5 million board feet of lumber produced, 650,000 tons of logs supplied and 4.5 million pounds of wood waste recycled. Affiliated brands cover lumber, recycling and firewood.

Nothing about this company could be verified outside the NC Forest Service register, which lists it as a New Bern buyer of standing timber offering timber cruises across a twelve-county block of eastern North Carolina. A research pass found no website, no Facebook page and no readable directory entry — the only near-matches were a LinkedIn profile and two business-data pages that could not be opened. Treat the register listing as the whole of the record.

The BBB puts this Sanford operation's start date at September 14, 1971 — around 54 years of trading by the bureau's own file — though it is not BBB accredited and carries no rating, the bureau stating it has insufficient information to issue one. The N.C. Forest Service register lists the company buying all hardwood and softwood species as standing timber, sawlogs and pulpwood, broader than the single "mixed hardwoods" entry this listing previously carried. Manta categorises the business under pulpwood and shows about six employees. No website, Facebook page or published reviews were found anywhere.