What is a Forester?

A forester is a specialist with advanced education, who uses his or her abilities and knowledge of forestry and natural sciences to provide professional forestry services to private individuals, corporate and government entities. Professional ethics expects allegiance to the employer.

A consultant forester works in the private sector providing services on a fee or contingency basis, not employed by a forest industry with no direct economic interest in a timber procurement or purchasing entity. Creekside Foresters are consulting foresters who work for you and on behalf of your desired goals, objectives, and interests. An ethical consulting forester should have no outside economic interest in the marketing of your timber resource. This is why it is so important to have a forester and not a logger assisting you in making important managerial decisions.

An industrial forester may work for a wood using manufacturer or may have an economic interest in a timber purchasing or procurement entity. Industrial foresters may provide professional services to forest owners on a fee basis or other consideration such as a right of first refusal to purchase timber products that may be offered for sale from an owner's property.

Click the Best Management Practices link to learn more about different harvest techniques used by professional foresters to promote natural regeneration and the capture of  mortality when a forested stand reaches either financial or biological maturity.