Timberland Management
Natural Resource Consultants, LLC is a timber and wildlife management company with over 20,000 acres under long-term management. We are committed to insuring that, through prudent forest management, each client's individual needs are met. Whether the goal is to maximize biomass production, enhance biodiversity through conservation of native species or simply create an aesthetically pleasing property, we work to ensure that management goals are met. Providing personal attention is very important to us.
We are a full service forestry and wildlife management company able to handle every aspect of your timberland management.
Timber Sales ~ Timber Management ~ Wildlife Services ~ Grading Services ~ Lake Construction and Management
Timber Sales
Achieving optimal timing for timber sales is important not only for proper forest management but also to maximize returns for landowners. We are careful to plan timber sales achieve these objectives. When conducting a timber sale, our primary goal is to receive the highest possible price for the timber offered for sale while protecting the integrity of the property and preserving its long-term management options.
We market timber only to reputable timber buyers and oversee every aspect of the sale from timber marking to harvest clean up.
Before harvest begins we mark the sale area and property lines. It is important to delineate property lines and sale areas as well as map out timber sale areas using an existing GIS map or creating a new timber type map.
Our timber sale contracts stipulate the terms and conditions of the sale. These terms and conditions are designed specifically for the individual sale to ensure the best results. We supervise all logging activities and enforce the terms and conditions of the sale.
All timber sales are designed to protect site productivity and water quality following Best Management Practices (BMP’s).
Timber Management
Timberland Inspections
Regular growing season inspections are needed to assess the conditions in the timber stands. In addition to regular inspections by a forester or forestry tech, we also like to conduct at least one aerial inspection. We inspect for insects, trespass, boundary line issues and maintenance, invasive plants that should be controlled and condition of wildlife openings. We provide detailed reports on the condition of your timberland.
Management Plans
A well-written forest management plan is important to identify landowner objectives, steps to achieving them and a timeline for conducting them. Our detailed management plans include a description of each stand, with a timber type map, aerial photograph, recommended thinning regimes, expected harvest results, and all returns associated with the timberland portion of your land holding. We can also create a twenty-year wildlife management plan, which will address game management for quail, deer, turkey, and duck.
GIS Mapping
We will provide our clients with state-of-the-art maps with each acreage calculations for each stand.
Prescribed Burning
Regular prescribed fire will reduce fuel load and vegetative competition within your forest as well as improve wildlife habitat. We can handle all aspects of prescribed burning from firebreak installation to lighting the fire.
Reforestation
Machine and hand planting, pine and hardwood trees.
Chemical Vegetation
Control Helicopter and ground application, site preparation, release for planted pine, kudzu control. Boundary Line Painting: Helps prevent adverse possession, encroachment and timber theft. Growing Season Inspections Detailed reports on the condition of your timberland. Helps to identify, beetle spots and disease and helps prevent timber theft.
Timber Appraisal
We can assess the timber on your property to determine the volume and value of your timber.
Wildlife Services
We can assist you with every aspect of food plot installation and management. Utilizing food plots with optimal size, location and plantings can increase wildlife sightings and harvest.
We can conduct population counts and from these counts create a wildlife management plan and harvest recommendations.
For landowners who wish to lease out hunting rights, we can assist in hunting lease management.
Grading Services
Land Clearing
Our grading company can handle most any land clearing job including road construction and maintenance, erosion control, loading dock clean up, and firebreak installation.
Food Plot Installation
Planting and maintaining food plots is one of the best ways to produce larger, healthier animals while increasing the number of deer your property can hold. In the southeast the most stressful times for white-tailed deer are the late summer and mid-winter. In summer many of the plants deer use become less palatable and of little nutritional value. At this time mast crops have not fallen yet and deer are unable to find something to eat. In the middle of the winter fewer sources of food are available for wildlife.During these periods food plots can also greatly increase the amount of deer your land can support.
We work with landowners to identify optimum food plot locations, size and plantings.
Lake Construction and Management
From planning and locating to construction and management, we assist with all aspects of creating the ideal fishing and recreational lake. Our management services include population surveys, weed control, fertilization, and stocking, depending on the intensity of management desired.
Natural Resource Consultants meets all of our clients’ goals no matter how minor they appear. We are committed to staying abreast of changes in our industry and maintaining the personalized management that our clients have come to expect.
Our experienced staff schedules & implements management practices which will more than pay back
the landowner with increased returns and reduced costs. We work hard to improve and manage
every
aspect of your property so you can enjoy it.