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Hull Forest Products has received the EPA's Environmental Merit Award for helping to promote and preserve working forests.
Are you a landowner looking for help with forest management or timber harvesting in Connecticut, Massachusetts, or Rhode Island? We provide forest management & timber harvesting services through our state licensed foresters and harvesters.
The forestry division of Hull Forest Products manages over 30,000 acres of woodlands for clients ranging from small landowners to nonprofit organizations to municipal agencies. Our certified professional foresters help landowners understand their forestland, identify goals for their property, and achieve them.
Contact one of our state-licensed foresters today to schedule a consultation.
Please note: Hull Forest Products does not do arborist work or remove dooryard trees. Landowners with a minimum of 10 acres are encouraged to contact us for management services.
Forest Management
Do you want to manage your woodland assets for tax purposes, income, wildlife enhancement, or recreation? Reap financial and environmental benefits by having a forest management plan.
Our foresters prepare and file detailed forest management and stewardship plans that develop and implement land use programs that meet multiple goals and comply with state regulations, including Chapter 61 plans. These plans take into account forest health, soil and stand types, terrain, and plant and animal life. Landowners receive maps of their land, confirmation of property boundaries, and information about their property, including timber volumes and values. Hull Forest Products also conducts timber harvests and timber stand improvement work for clients interested in these services.
Unlike many consulting foresters, who come and go, we have had a solid team of forestry professionals since 1969. Our foresters build relationships with landowners and are prepared to help them for the long-term. Many of our clients have been with us for over 30 years and successive timber harvests, enabling us to develop a unique relationship with them and their land.
Learn more:
Watch our forestry video
Read about the Environmental and Financial Benefits of Forest Management
Timber Harvests and Sales
For four decades Hull Forest Products has conducted careful timber harvests that follow detailed forestry prescriptions set by our licensed foresters and approved by state foresters in MA, CT, and RI. Our experienced harvesters follow best management practices for logging and work hard to deliver the best value for clients as well as the best outcome for the forest.
In addition to buying standing timber, we purchase logs roadside or delivered throughout New England and New York.
forestry testimonials
Forestland / Timber Appraisals
We conduct forest appraisals for a wide range of public and private clients who may be dividing or selling their assets, or making a donation of forestland to a land trust or conservation agency.
Land Stewardship Planning
Holding onto your family land takes planning and vision; let our forest management planning help you achieve your goals. From recreational leasing to the donation of development rights, we are forest conservation innovators with over 9,000 acres of our own land under conservation easement. Let our experience work for you.
We Buy Forestland
Hull Forestlands purchases forestland for long-term forest management and conservation. If you have 100 acres or more and are interested in seeing it preserved as a working woodland, please contact us.
The Hull Forestlands
Our own forestland is located in the Hilltown and Berkshire regions of western Massachusetts and the Quinebaug Highlands region of eastern Connecticut. The Hull Forestlands are certified to FSC standards via SmartWood, a program of the Rainforest Alliance's Sustainable Forestry Division.
Hull Forest Products is a proud contributor to the working landscape of protected forests that characterize rural New England. Our ongoing forest conservation efforts have permanently protected over 12,000 acres of working forests. We have forged partnerships with the Nature Conservancy, Norcross Wildlife Foundation, New England Forestry Foundation, and others who recognize that private forests provide public benefits that make them important to our region as a whole.
Acorn to Oak
Our family business connects us to the entire lifecyle of the forest. We are tree farmers, foresters, sawyers, and craftsmen.
In addition to providing forestry services, we manufacture heirloom quality floors, beams, and other products from local forests. When you sell wood to us, engage our services, or buy our products, you support sustainable forestry practices and help ensure the long-term survival of our region's forests. By sustaining the market for local forest products, you encourage New England landowners to keep their forests instead of selling them for development. This is important because the number one threat to southern New England's forests today is development.
Forests are complex ecosystems that enhance our air and water quality, provide plant and wildlife habitat, sequester carbon, and offer recreational opportunity, rural character, and open space as well as forest products to meet the needs of society. We are proud to care for the region's forests so they can always be productive.
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Lem and Greg Walker of Sturbridge, MA, Hull forestry clients for over 38 years and winners of the CT Tree Farmer of the Year award. Our foresters are licensed Tree Farm inspectors, and we strongly support the Tree Farm Program. Several of our forestry clients have won Tree Farmer of the Year awards, prestigious honors bestowed by the American Tree Farm System in recognition of outstanding achievement in maintaining and promoting healthy working forests.
Contact our forestry deparment
1-800-353-3331
Main Office
101 Hampton Road
Pomfret Center, CT 06259
U.S.A.
Western MA office: One Station Road Russell, MA 01071 USA
 Forest reclaims what was once a field as evidenced by the old horse-drawn sickle bar mower left behind in this Sandisfield, MA forest. Today Massachusetts, the third most densely populated state, is also one of the top 10 most forested states.
"I think the biggest challenge facing private forest management is the degree to which private forests are undervalued. Private forests provide so many ecological, aesthetic, and recreational benefits that aren’t adequately accounted for in our country, and this undervaluation artificially inflates the economic incentive to convert and develop forestland for other uses."
-David Hobson, former Forest Manager at Yale University and Hull Forest Products forester, on the community benefits conferred by private forests.
When consumers choose American-grown wood they help ensure that the local forested landscape we all enjoy will remain forested. Sustaining the market for American forest products gives landowners a financial incentive to keep their land in forest.
Yellow rumped warbler, Chester, MA, Mica Mill Forest owned by Hull Forestlands. Birds are among the many species that depend on forested areas for their habitat needs.
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The Rainforest Alliance is an international nonprofit conservation organization that certifies forestry and agricultural operations, ensuring that they meet rigorous standards for the conservation of natural resources and the rights and welfare of workers and local communities. |
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SCS-COC-002641
SW-FM/COC-000193.
FSC certification ensures responsible use of forest resources.
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