Resource Inventories & Appraisals

The team of foresters at BF has always been at the forefront of the forest industry in determining and organizing the most detailed and strategic resource inventories and value appraisals.

It is for this reason that BF has been a key component in many high profile land acquisitions by conducting resource inventories and appraisals for the National Park Service, The Conservation Fund,  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S.D.A. National Resource Conservation Service and The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  This work has carried us throughout Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, the Carolinas, Florida and Georgia for not only government agencies, but for industry and non-industrial private forest landowners as well. 

These services have included extensive forest damage appraisals on over 3,000 acres in Texas and Mississippi following both Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, utilizing the latest in GIS technology.

The following is a selection of natural resource damage appraisals completed by the BF Team:

• Union Pacific Resources, Ft. Worth, TX - Gas Well Blowout Damage Appraisal - Rapides Parish, Louisiana. BF quantified the Short and Long Term economic effects on over a thousand acres of commercial forestlands.
  
• Texaco Exploration and Production, Inc., Wallace King Marraro & Branson, Washington, D.C. – Saltwater and Production Sites Damages, Smith County, Texas.
  
• Farmers Insurance Group, Longview, TX – Wildfire Damage Appraisals, Rusk County, Texas
  
• AIG Aviation, Inc., Minden, LA – Herbicide Damages Appraisal, Liberty County, Texas
  
• East Texas Appraisal & Adjusting, Lufkin, TX – Harvesting Trespass Damage Appraisals, Shelby and San Augustine County, Texas
  
• Crawford & Company, Texarkana, TX – Tree Damage Appraisal, Hempstead County, Arkansas
  
• CNA Insurance, Houston, TX – Harvesting Trespass Damages Consultation, Shelby County, Texas
  
• U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C. – aboriginal claims case, researched and reviewed timber values in nine East Texas counties over a 109-year period of time.  Three-year project involving over 1,500 man-hours of work.
  
• McIvor Ranch, Davis Mountains, Texas - Tree Ring and Growth Analysis, legal dispute over age of goat-wire fencing in Richard McLaren v. McIvor Ranch.