Consulting foresters serve or represent private landowners on a contract or fee basis, which the landowner pays.

Industrial foresters are employed by wood-using industries that provide advice and assistance to private landowners to promote forestry practices approved by the companies.

Services Offered by Consulting and Industrial Foresters may include:

• Acquisition and sale of forest lands
• Aerial photo mapping and interpretation
• Appraisals: land, timber, damage, trespass
• Arboriculture
• Christmas tree management
• Cost Basis determination
• Environmental impact statements
• Forest Inventory and cruising
• Forest management plans
• Forest resource and economic studies
• Landscape planning
• Litigation and expert testimony
• Logging engineering
• Log scaling and grading
• Pest control
• Prescribed burning
• Recreation - planning and development
• Road location, design and construction
• Shade tree appraisals
• Specialty product marketing
• Surveying and boundary establishment
• Thinning and pruning
• Timber Tax counseling
• Timber sales: preparation & administration
• Timber sales: solicit bids & prepare contracts
• Timber stand improvement
• Tree planting and site preparation
• Urban forestry
• Watershed protection
• Wildlife management
  
  Individual directory listings show the services offered by each firm.

** All Wisconsin Cooperating Foresters agree to provide services consistent with DNR forestry standards. Firms that do not participate in forest certification are not less qualified to provide services.

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