Services
Types of Services Offered:
Timber Marking / Timber Sales / Timber Marketing
This ensures the landowner will receive the highest price and proper tree selection for harvest, as well as the fair market value of their timber. Selecting trees to harvest is one of the most important decisions in forest management. Trees are marked according to landowner objective.
Gregg Forest Services will mark the timber to be harvested, advertise the sale, conduct a sealed bid timber sale, arrange the Timber Sale Contract, and check on timber removal from the landowner's property.
Tree Planting / Plantation Maintenance
Tree planting jobs are often available for cost-share money through the USDA or some state programs. The areas that are most eligible are old fields and pastures near streams.
Purposes of tree planting include: providing timber, reducing erosion, improving water quality, creating wildlife habitats, acting as windbreaks, improving aesthetics, and personal enjoyment.
The benefits of conservation tree planting are both endless and invaluable.
Timber Stand Improvement (TSI)
TSI is most often needed after a timber harvest. It is a deductible expense from your timber sale, or it can be considered as a farm expense. TSI is a great re-investment which will pay off throughout the life of the forest. TSI focuses on removing cull trees, controlling grapevines, thinning pole-sized stands, and completing regeneration openings. The goals of TSI are to increase future stand value, growth rate, quality, and quantity of valuable trees. TSI also provides a good habitat for wildlife.
Brush Management
Brush Management involves removing invasive species from a woodland. These exotic species limit the growth of native plants that are necessary to support wildlife in the edges and understories of Indiana's forests. Invasive species can also keep a forest from regenerating after a harvest.
Cost-share money from the NRCS and IDNR can be applied for. A forester can make sure that the work is done to the required standards with minimal residual damage and that the process is completed on time.
Forest Management Plans
A forest management plan is the first step any landowner should do. Gregg Forest Services will walk through the woods with the landowner(s), determine their objectives, assess the forest resources, and study soil and topography data. From this information, a forest management plan can be written based on their (landowner) objectives. The purpose of a forest management plan is to give landowners recommendations and a schedule to meet their objectives.
Timber Appraisals / Inventories
This is a great tool for management planning and decision making. Value, growth, species, number of trees per acre, and volume per acre and by species can be determined from a timber appraisal. This information allows for sound management decisions to be made about the future of your property.
Taxation Assistance
Landowners can save money on taxes on most forest management activities. These include tree planting, timber stand improvement (TSI), and timber sales. Gregg Forest Services assists landowners in establishing a basis for their timber to reduce capital gains taxes on income from the sale of timber.