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Timber Sales and Contracts for the Savvy Landowner
Welcome to Timber Sales and Contracts for the Savvy Landowner. This website will help you to be better prepared to sell your timber legally, safely, and for a fair market price. If you are like many landowners, you might sell timber from your land a few times during your ownership of the property. The steps you take during a timber sale will impact the return you make on your forest investment and also the long-term profitability of your forest. Clearly, it's important to conduct the sale of your timber right!
To help you decide if you are ready to sell your timber, take this short quiz. If you can answer all of the questions, you have much of the information you need to sell your timber successfully. If some questions are stumping you, this module can help you learn what you need to know.
This module has 2 parts Unit 1: Timber Sales and Unit 2: Timber Contracts. In order to make full use of all the resources available in this module, you will need to have Adobe PDF Reader and a video player available on your computer. Click on the icons to download free versions of these programs.
Ready? Click on the link below to begin the module.
Timber Sales
This unit covers many of the basics and provides an overview of the process.
Timber Contracts
This unit will guide you through all the major aspects of a legal timber sale contract. You will be able to identify the components that should be present in any contract.
