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How Timber Is Sold
Clear Creek Forestry can help you get the most dollar for your
timber. Our experts monitor each step in the sales process to
ensure the process is fair and equitable for you.
Selling timber includes:
- Marking the trees to be harvested.
- Developing the volume reports for the marked trees.
- Sending bid packages to potential buyers.
- Holding a sealed bid opening, usually in three weeks.
All bids are opened at the same time and place.
- At the landowner's approval, the high bidder is normally selected as purchaser. Signing a timber sale contract, in which the purchaser has a given time period to remove the marked trees from the tract.
- Supervising and approving the entire harvesting operation from start completely through sale reclamation and closure.
- The sales are strictly supervised on a regular basis by a Clear Creek Forestry.
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When you hire Clear Creek Forestry to administer your timber
sale, you hire a forester that works for you, for your interests,
and for your security. Clear Creek Forestry is your forester!
Our Timber Sales
For your convenience we have created an interactive map featuring the sales that are out for bid,
sales we have under contract and sales that we have harvested in the past. Click here for access.
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Timber Taxes
Learn the best way to handle taxes on your timber sales.
Visit the National Timber Tax Website.
For further information on
timber taxes, read
"Minimizing Federal Income Tax for
Forest Landowners,"
a paper from Michigan State University
and Purdue University.
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