The Timber Harvesting industry in Massachusetts is diverse and evolving. Companies largely undertake processes like sawmilling, kiln drying, and logging but also contribute to land preservation and conservation efforts. They cater to a wide range of clients including construction companies, lumber brokers, and homeowners, providing customized solutions and high-quality services. Additionally, these companies have extended their offerings to include products like kiln-dried firewood and biomass. The industry is committed to customer satisfaction and reliability, and there is a growing concern for environmentally friendly practices as the sector heads towards a more sustainable future.


Top 20 timber harvesting companies in Massachusetts

1. Lashway Lumber, INC.

Lashway Lumber offers custom sawmill, kiln drying and logging services. They provide solutions for timber harvesting, construction companies, lumber brokers, and homeowners.


2. Anderson Timber Harvesting INC

Anderson Timber Harvesting is a family-owned company that provides exceptional forestry and logging services to clients in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The company is committed to the satisfaction of its customers, providing prompt and reliable service for over four decades. Apart from land clearing, logging & forest management services, they also sell kiln-dried firewood to their clients and offer biomass as well as clean, debarked hardwood or softwood chips.


3. Foxbard Farms

Foxbard Farm is a historical agricultural property located in Shelburne, MA, that has supported a variety of farming practices, including dairy and beef cattle, hay crops, apples, vegetables, cordwood, and timber in the past. Today, the farm is focused on land preservation and conservation.


4. T Jepson &a; Son

  • Website: tjepsonandson.com
  • Headquarters: Spencer, Massachusetts, United States
  • Headcount: 1-10

We offer land clearing, stump and tree removal, storm cleanup, and timber harvesting, as well as providing free consultations for sustainable forestry plans. Our wood chips and logs are delivered on time and at competitive prices, while our professional tree services bring value to customer properties and projects. Whether you are a land trust, contractor, homeowner, farmer or landowner, trust our experts at T. Jepson & Son to handle your next forestry project. Contact us today for a free estimate


5. Pirner Logging

Pirner Logging & Land Clearing is fully equipped with state of the art equipment to handle all of your lot and land clearing needs, whether it's 1 acre to 100 acres. We regularly service customers in our local area and will travel to neighboring communities and beyond to get the job done. Whether you are doing new construction, renovations, or clearing land for a new development, our team of experienced personnel make small or large jobs run efficiently, giving us the ability to always keep a competitive edge. We will quote your job, from something small to hundreds of acres, factoring in all aspects of the job - including the wood salvage value, if any. In addition, we have the right equipment for each sized job, making for the most efficient job site possible. For every job we keep our client's goals as the main objective, providing the best service we can.


6. CP Enterprises

  • Website: cpeprises.com
  • Headquarters: Newbury, Massachusetts, United States
  • Headcount: 1-10

CP Enterprises, dealer of Central Boiler Outdoor Wood Furnaces. The Classic is a safe, efficient outdoor wood furnace that can provide 100% of your heating needs. Our outdoor wood furnaces heat multiple buildings, hot tubs, pools, greenhouses, domestic water and more.


7. Pakira, Inc.

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8. W.R. Robinson Lumber CO., INC.

W.R. Robinson Lumber manufactures and delivers high quality Eastern White Pine lumber products for construction projects such as barns, sheds and equestrian stables.


9. North Quabbin Forestry

North Quabbin Forestry is dedicated to practicing the very best forest management for landowners throughout Massachusetts. Good forestry practices can: increase timber yields; provide for better wildlife habitat; increase recreational opportunities; and protect water quality. A well managed woodlot will also greatly increase the value of your property. By practicing excellent forestry as in this white pine forest stand, foresters can greatly increase timber and property values for landowners.


10. Family Forest Research Center

By investigating the social, political, and economic dimensions of family forest ownership, we seek to improve forest conservation in order to better meet the current and future needs of forest owners, communities, and society. All of us have different goals and objectives, but the one thing we all have is pride of ownership. -Family forest owner, Washington


11. Pakira

  • Website: pakira.com
  • Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • Founded: 2019
  • Headcount: 1-10
  • Latest funding type: Non Equity Assistance
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Pakira is a trading platform for physical commodities markets throughout their entire B2B supply chain from source to retail.


12. MassWoods

  • Website: masswoods.org
  • Headquarters: Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
  • Headcount: 1-10

MassWoods is a company that operates in the Environmental Services industry. It employs 11-20 people and has $1M-$5M of revenue. The company is headquartered in Amherst, Massachusetts.


13. Victorian Plantations

The Company makes the case that this CAR cannot be considered in isolation. Application of the BMP has serious implications to the Company's resource availability in the Strzelecki area of its operations because many of its plantation stands are contiguous with cool temperate rainforest. For example, part of the Company's resource (the 'Cores and Links') has been under a voluntary moratorium on harvesting because of these associated values. Recent modelling of woodflows from the whole GRP resource has shown that future contracted commitments cannot be met without harvesting of plantation stands within the Cores and Links. While the audit team accepts this connection, the presentation on resource availability made to the audit team did not demonstrate that buffer width on rainforest was a 'go' or 'no go' variable in meeting commitments. In fact the modelling demonstrated that the Company would have to implement both the exisiting (inadequate) BMP and harvest almost all the plantation in the Cores and Links to meet its contracted commitments.Thus, the shortfall and Cores and Links situation does not give the Company any reasonable excuse to avoid its commitment to deal with the expert review of the BMP. The only way out of the resource impasse would be to find alternative sources for woodflows so that the resource can meet commitments when the BMP is modified to meet the requirements of the expert review. In addition, the company is concerned that a Draft Action Statement on Temperate Rainforest is under public review and it does not want to take action in advance of the finalization of that Action Statement. The audit team does not accept that this is a reason to delay implementation of provisions to meet FSC requirements in Principle 9. Following the field audit, further information and evidence was provided to SmartWood that resulted in a determination that this MAJOR CAR had technically been met, however due to the poor wording of the CAR the intent has not been met. Thus, this CAR is closed out and a new ...


14. WesttecH Maschinenbau

  • Website: woodcracker.com
  • Headquarters: Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States
  • Headcount: 1-10

Become familiar with the reliability of Woodcracker, Mowblower and Mulcher! We do more than develop and manufacture robust forestry and landscaping equipment. Westtech products set themselves apart through innovative technology.


15. Manulife Investment Management, Timberland and Agriculture

Manulife Investment Management manages a diversified global portfolio of timberland and agriculture with forests covering 5.6 million acres across the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, and New Zealand, and farms covering over 400,000 acres of prime farmland across the United States, Australia, Canada, and Chile as of June 30, 2021. With over 30 years of experience building and sustainably managing global forests and farms while contributing to the environment and local communities, we’ve become one of the world’s largest managers of timberland and agriculture. Our commitment is to the stewardship of our land: we operate in a way that improves our environment and nourishes communities. As of November 15, 2021, Hancock Natural Resource Group adopted the Manulife Investment Management brand. Manulife Investment Management’s comprehensive private markets strategies include private equity and credit, real estate, infrastructure, timberland, and agriculture. For regular updates on our private markets business, follow us at @Manulife Investment Management.


16. Roberts Brothers Lumber

  • Website: robertslumber.com
  • Headquarters: Ashfield, Massachusetts, United States
  • Headcount: 1-10

Roberts Brothers Lumber Co., Inc. was founded in 1947 by brothers Pete & Gibby Roberts. Today Pete's son, Leonard carries on the family business with the help of a dedicated workforce consisting of loggers, sawyers, lumber inspectors, graders, foresters, mechanics, truck drivers, and office support staff. Located in the heart of the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts, Roberts Brothers manages forest land, produces a variety of hardwood and softwood dimensional lumber products for worldwide distribution, and several other quality forest products including native bark mulch, wood fuels, and specialty playground materials. With over 2,000 acres owned or leased by the company and a capacity to produce more than 70,000 board feet of lumber weekly, Roberts Brothers has grown into one of the largest sawmill operations in Massachusetts. While we take great pride in our rich history and over seven decades of leadership in the regional forest products industry, our company is making great strides in its efforts to continue to modernize our operations and diversify with new wood-based products. Presently Roberts Brothers together with key strategic partners is developing a modern combined heat and power facility utilizing advanced bioenergy conversion technology to convert agricultural sawmill waste to renewable heat and electricity. Heat from the facility will be utilized for the drying of wood chips in a rotary drum dryer and lumber and firewood will be seasoned in a recently purchased dry kiln. By offering new and innovative products such as dry fuel chips, kiln dried lumber, seasoned firewood, and biochar soil amendments, Roberts Brothers envisions a very bright future thanks to a diverse array of new products.


17. Central Mass Tree

Central Mass Tree Inc. is a full service Tree Company! Whether you want to improve your property value, protect your home, or clear space, there's one tree service company in Massachusetts that can take care of all your needs: It's Firewood time and Central Mass tree Inc. is your firewood headquarters! Central Mass Tree is your tree removal, land clearing, timber harvesting, and firewood company in our second decade of service to the central Massachusetts area and beyond.


18. Commercial Fruit & Garden Outlet

Commercial Fruit Baskets offers beautiful fruit baskets in Worcester, Massachusetts.


19. Massachusetts Forest Alliance

The Massachusetts Forest Alliance (MFA) was founded in 2012 for the purpose of representing and advocating for citizens and businesses who support a strong, sustainable forest economy. Three previously separate groups (the Massachusetts Wood Producers Association, the Massachusetts Association of Professional Foresters, and the Massachusetts Forest Landowners Association) voted to combine their resources into one organization, to provide a unified and consistent voice in matters of forest policy. In July of 2012, MFA's Board of Directors began hiring a full-time staff to coordinate membership, policy, outreach, and educational efforts, develop a long-term strategic plan for the organization, and raise the funds necessary to accomplish MFA's mission.


20. Franklin Land Trust

Franklin Land Trust is a non-profit organization based in Massachusetts that supports farmers and landowners in protecting their land from development. They assist families in achieving their financial goals, family needs, and conservation vision.


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