• Personnel
• Clients
• Mission Statement
• Vision
• Core Values
• History

Personnel

American Forest Management’s extensive staff includes registered foresters with four-year degrees from SAF accredited colleges and universities, as well as advanced degrees including PhDs, MFs, and MBAs. It also employs certified general real estate appraisers and an MAI appraiser, multi-state licensed real estate brokers, timberland experts, forest data management specialists, and an experienced administrative support team.
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Clients

Clients include non-industrial private forestland owners, timberland investment management organizations, conservation organizations, bank trust departments, and forest industry companies. Most of our work is focused in the South, Appalachian and Lake States regions of the United States but AFM has experience in virtually all of the US timber growing regions.  AFM also has considerable international experience, including projects in Russia, the Peoples Republic of China, France, Germany, Latin America and South America.
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Mission Statement

The mission of American Forest Management, Inc. (AFM) as a professional forestry consulting and real estate brokerage firm is to:

• Maximize our clients' objectives by consistently providing superior forest resource consulting services and real estate brokerage services
  
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Vision
Our vision at AFM is to:

• Provide outstanding services to our clients and be recognized as setting the bar for others to follow;
• Exhibit integrity, business ethics, service quality and stewardship of the natural resource which is unsurpassed;
• Continually seek growth opportunities in all areas of our business that result in increased shareholder value;
• Be a preferred place of employment in our industry where outstanding performance is expected, recognized and rewarded
  
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Core Values

• Integrity - we do what we say and hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards
• Professionalism - we are characterized by our dedication and motivation to be the best in our profession
• Client Driven - we are committed to providing outstanding services; focused on individual client needs while building long-term relationships
• Quality - we strive to always do it right the first time
• Stewardship - we recognize that our future and future generations depend on sound and sustainable management of our natural resources
• Employees - we truly believe our employees are our most valuable asset and continually strive to create a safe, productive and rewarding workplace environment
• Profit - we know our costs and approach every project with careful analysis for seeking new avenues to increase our returns
  
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History

In 1966, Bartow S. Shaw, Jr. formed Bartow Shaw and Associates to provide consulting services for non-industrial private forestland owners. The company gradually added foresters and forest technicians to meet an expanding client base. In 1983 and 1984, Frank McLeod III and Roy Belser became stockholders in Shaw, McLeod and Belser. In 1987, Shaw, McLeod and Belser acquired the Hurlbutt firm in Walterboro, South Carolina. In 2002, SMBH acquired Canal Forest Resources, a consulting firm focusing primarily on land and data management for Timberland Investment Management Organizations. In January 2003, SMBH merged with Canal Forest Resources to form American Forest Management, Inc. (AFM). AFM is one of the largest forest resource consulting and management firms in the US providing a complete range of forestry services for a wide variety of clients.

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