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Grady Stephen Burdette is a native of Lanett, Alabama. Stephen...Read more

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Stephen Burdette has been a forester for 27 years, and is now a district manager for American Forest Management, the largest forestry consulting firm in the US. They have offices in all of the forested parts of the United States: Southeast, Maine, Wisconsin, and Washington state, which also manages land for clients in Hawaii. An international department will also travel worldwide for clients who own land overseas or are exploring that option. Burdette’s office of two foresters and a technician in Prattville works from west Georgia to east Mississippi, excluding the wiregrass region in SE Alabama, and an office in Meridian with three employees.

Handling timber sales is their bread and butter, but their projects run the full gamut from real estate, management, mapping, and reforestation for large clients like TIMOs and REITs as well as private landowners. Burdette chose forestry from a course catalog in college, and has loved every minute, he said – aside from the days he spends tangled in briars. These days he spends a little more time at a desk than in the field, but loves that he’s never doing the same thing two days in a row. Burdette particularly enjoys educating landowners about managing their property. “I like helping them learn enough about the asset they own to make wise decisions.”

Seeking clients in these counties:
Autauga
Barbour
Bibb
Bullock
Chambers
Chilton
Dallas
Elmore
Lee
Lowndes
Macon
Montgomery
Perry
Pike
Russell
Tallapoosa

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