About Us
Our forestry consultants and land management professionals are here to serve you
At American Forest Management, we’ve been helping landowners like you manage, sell, buy, improve, and enjoy millions of acres of land for over 50 years. We remain keenly focused on our vision of making ownership more rewarding by helping people explore the full potential of their land.
At American Forest Management, we are a one-stop shop for all of your land management and forestry consulting needs. We serve a diverse client base and manage over 5.7 million acres of land in the Southeast, Gulf Coast, Appalachia, Northeast, Pacific Northwest, Intermountain, and Lake States Regions of the United States, and Central America. With over 370 employees and exclusive contractors, we can provide customized services in all aspects of natural resource management, including forestry and land management, timber sales and harvesting supervision, forest data and inventory management, resource planning and biometrics, valuation and acquisition services, internal and client accounting, real estate sales, environmental and farmland management services, and SFI®/FSC®/ATFS certification system management.
Our foresters and land management professionals have a deep understanding of local markets and conditions. They can apply their knowledge to your specific property, giving you the care and attention you deserve.
Our History
How it all started
In 1966, Bartow S. Shaw, Jr. formed Bartow Shaw and Associates to provide consulting services for private forestland owners. Nearly 20 years later, Roy Belser and Frank McLeod III purchased stock, and Shaw, McLeod and Belser was born. Over the next 30 years the company expanded through both organic growth and acquisition of esteemed companies and consultants, including the Hurlbutt firm, Canal Forest Resources, Sustainable Forest Technologies (consulting arm of International Paper), and International Forestry Consultants. This dynamic growth brought us to become the strong company we are today--the company we’re proud to call American Forest Management.