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American Forest Management, Inc.

American Forest Management, Inc.

Business Consulting and Services

Charlotte, North Carolina 8,748 followers

Helping landowners manage, sell, buy and enjoy millions of acres of land for over 58 years.

About us

At American Forest Management, we’ve been helping landowners like you manage, sell, buy, improve, and enjoy millions of acres of land for over 58 years. Our expertise empowers people to explore the full potential of their land. More than 1,200 clients who own over 6.5 million acres trust us to be their advisors and stewards. We take this great responsibility personally, but never for granted. Clients like these have made American Forest Management the largest land consulting and real estate brokerage firm in the United States. With hundreds of employees in offices across the country, we provide our landowners with individualized local services while leveraging the vast technical resources of our national company. But don’t let our size scare you. We treat all landowners, large or small, with the same level of care and respect. From a retreat with a few acres to parcels of timberland, we fully invest in your land with you. In our way of thinking, we’re in this together.

Industry
Business Consulting and Services
Company size
201-500 employees
Headquarters
Charlotte, North Carolina
Type
Privately Held
Founded
1966
Specialties
Land Management, Real Estate Services, Wildlife Management, Technical and Data Services, Timber Sales, Appraisal Services, Environmental Management, Wood Flow, Accounting, and Recreational Leases

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Updates

  • Not quite sure where your property ends and your neighbor’s begins? AFM foresters can help with that! Well-established boundary lines and maintenance can determine whether that swimming hole is your oasis, whether the beaver activity can be solved on your own, or if you need to give your neighbor a ring. They can also tell you if those dying trees are on your property or if something is happening nearby that you need to keep tabs on. Seeing a distinct boundary helps you determine your management needs!

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  • AFM conducted fieldwork for a timber cruise and management plan for a private landowner in Central Oregon. Brooke Durnin, Forester in Spokane, WA, collaborated with Rich Botto and Jason Jubain in our inventory management and GIS team to develop a cruise that covered the entire forested portion of the property. Colton Groff and Cole Wrebelis, Foresters from the Kalispell office, completed the timber cruise. This data will be used to calculate timber volumes, develop treatment prescriptions, and identify stands that are eligible for treatments using available cost-share funding. Brian Vrablick, Intermountain Region Manager, and Eric Koenig, Spokane District Manager, visited the property while the cruise was underway. Their tasks were to finalize stand boundaries, rate and prioritize stands based on harvest potential, fuels treatment needs and priority level, and develop initial treatment prescriptions. Criteria used in the development of stand priority rankings included the presence of insects and diseases, proximity to unmanaged federal lands, homesites, and main access roads, as well as overstocking. The data combined from the timber cruise and the onsite assessment will be utilized to create a forest management plan. This project demonstrates how AFM can deliver multiple services within a single project to develop a comprehensive, actionable management plan that will inform future operations and priorities.

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  • 🚨 Internship Alert! 🚨 American Forest Management (AFM) is hiring a Forest Analytics Intern to join our Resource Planning and Biometric Services (RPBS) group in Charlotte, NC (hybrid) this summer! If you're excited about applying data science to real-world forestry challenges, working with big data, and building tools that drive better decisions, this is for you. 🔹 What you’ll do: ✅ Analyze complex forest and remote sensing data using R & Python ✅ Work with databases (Postgres, SQL, Excel) to clean and process large datasets ✅ Develop growth models, predictive analytics, and decision-support tools ✅ Automate processes and integrate geospatial data (LiDAR, Sentinel-2) ✅ Collaborate with forestry professionals to solve real-world management challenges 🔹 What we’re looking for: 📍 Bachelor’s degree in Forestry, Geospatial Sciences, Data Science, or related field 📍 Master’s degree (or working toward one) preferred 📍 Strong programming skills (R, Python, Jupyter, R Shiny) 📍 Understanding of forestry metrics, silviculture, statistics, and GIS 📍 Ability to manage large, messy datasets and think creatively 📍 Hybrid internship (Charlotte, NC HQ) 📆 Flexible start (June - August timeframe) | 4-6 weeks Ready to apply your skills to real forestry problems? Join us and make an impact. 🌲 Apply now! #Forestry #DataScience #Internship #Hiring #ForestAnalytics #GIS #GrowthModels #RemoteSensing Daniel Hemming

  • Our Women’s History series comes to a close today. Ellie Fowler, Forester in Bennettsville, SC, shares a memory of when she felt like she was making a difference. The truth is that women across the country are making an impact in forestry and natural resources management. We are grateful for the smart, ambitious, and hard-working women who go the extra mile for our clients every day. You play an important role in AFM’s success, and we wouldn’t be the same without you!

  • As we near the end of our Women’s History series, we hear from Tamsen Waldron, GIS Analyst in Sumter, SC. She shares details of her experience working with her colleagues at AFM and how their expertise has helped her grow in her career. Stay tuned next week for the final video in our Women’s History Month series!

  • Look who decided to make an appearance in Maine! Paula Pelletier, Forester in Milford, ME, came face to face with this majestic moose on a client’s property. As with many wild animals, moose are dangerous when provoked, but Paula wisely kept her distance. Moose are more plentiful in the northern forestlands of Maine because commercial harvesting areas create continuous food sources through natural regeneration. These herbivores dine on the young trees, shrubs, and browse common to those areas. Sodium is an essential part of their diet, so moose will eat aquatic plants like water lilies and pondweed. Moose also like the runoff salt lick on roads, which may be why this friend was spotted in this location!

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  • We’re thrilled to share that the talented agents at AFM Real Estate were honored at the 2025 RLI Apex Awards in Tucson, AZ. It was a big night for our team, and we are so proud to share this update with you! Congratulations to Fred Sperry, Pacific Northwest Real Estate Manager, for being awarded the Top Overall Producer nationally! He earned this distinguished honor by having the highest qualifying transaction volume. Eric Gage, CF, ALC (South Central Real Estate Manager), TRINA ANDERSON, ALC (Lake States Real Estate Manager), and Colton Jacobson (Real Estate Salesperson) were recognized as Apex Producers Club members. This honor comes in a record-breaking year for land real estate, with the APEX program receiving 255 applications representing over $9 billion in gross sales and 1.2 million acres of land sold. To rise to the top in such a competitive field—across ag land, ranches, recreational properties, auctions, and development land—is a truly remarkable achievement. To learn more about these prestigious awards and AFM Real Estate recipients, follow the link here: https://bit.ly/3FIiMJM

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