Greene County is in west central Alabama. Much of the ground is heavy clay that gives up water slowly. That one fact sets the working season on most tracts here.
Southeast Forestlands works only for the landowner. We do not buy timber and we are not paid by mills.
Heavy Ground, Short Working Window
Ground that is hard as a road in September will not hold a loaded truck in February.
So the working window here is set by rain, not by a date on a contract.
Put the Weather Terms in Writing
Any agreement should say plainly what happens during a wet spell. Who stops, when, and who fixes the road.
Without that, a wet winter becomes the landowner’s problem.
Swamp and Slough Along the Sipsey
Swamp ground along the Sipsey River grows good hardwood and holds a lot of game.
It also floods. Any plan for it needs a dry season and a way in that does not cross the worst of it.
Roads Take the Punishment Here
On clay, the road is the first thing to fail and the most expensive thing to fix.
Gravel where trucks turn, a ditch that carries water off, and a rule about stopping in the wet will do more for a place than anything else.
Ask for the road to be left usable. Put it in the agreement.
Planning What Goes Back
After a harvest, match the trees to the ground. Pine goes on the better drained rises. In the low ground, leaving it to seed in is only sound once a walk shows the seed trees and young stems are already there.
A plan drawn by ground type beats one drawn by the property line every time.
What a Look Tells You
Tree size, how thick the stand is, and where equipment can safely go are things you find by walking. Acreage on the deed tells you none of them.
Nearby Counties
We also work with landowners in nearby counties, including Tuscaloosa (AL), Sumter (AL), Marengo (AL), Hale (AL), and Pickens (AL).
General Guidance
How the work itself is done is explained once, site-wide, rather than repeated county by county:
- What a timber cruise measures
- How a sealed-bid timber sale works
- How we sell timber
- Wet-weather logging and BMPs
- Thinning decisions
- Regeneration and replanting
- All forestry services
Talk It Over First
Walk the place with a forester before deciding anything. Contact us to set up a visit.