Travis Timberlands
Travis Timberlands and Edward F. Travis Company, Inc., is a multi-disciplinary real estate brokerage and land sales consulting practice, experienced, educated and licensed to perform land sales, purchases, forestry consulting and real estate appraisals as licensed and registered foresters.
Land for Sale – Travis Timberlands
Wilmer, Mobile, AL
Acreage: 72 Acres Location: Near Wilmer, Mobile County, Mobile Alabama Price: $468,000
Property Overview:
- Great location in northwest Mobile County near Wilmer, north of Tanner- Williams
- 1,350 +- feet of road frontage on Wilmer-Grand Bay Road
- Tract is well suited for an executive retreat, equestrian center or county residential development.
- Great tract for small game, deer and dove fields.
- See Special Considerations…
Dees Corner Mobile, AL
Acreage: 8.43 Acres Location: Valuable Commercial Land at Historic Dees Corner Union Church Southwest Mobile County, Alabama Price: $1,195,000
Property Overview:
This property has 868.40 feet of frontage on Dawes Road including the curve, and 504.19 feet of frontage on the east side of Grand Bay Wilmer Road. County water, power, and telephone service are available. Sewer service is by septic tank. This is an excellent property, located in the growing Southwest Mobile County community area. NO minerals will be conveyed in the sale.
Washington County, AL
Acreage: 54 +- Acres> Location: Hwy 45 Price: $185,000
Property Overview:
The tract has merchantable timber. Timber volumes are available. The general property dimensions are 4,200 +- feet of highway frontage on U.S. Highway 45, and 3,200 +- feet of frontage along an abandoned rail road right of way on west side of property. this is a great tract for county residential, or a mini farm. Lakeside sites may be possible.
Baldwin County, AL
Acreage: 42.5 +- Acres / Surveyed Location: Hurricane Crossroads Price: $190,900
Property Overview:
- 42.5 +-surveyed acres, located on Dixon Road South lying west of Alabama highway 225 in fast growing Baldwin County, Alabama. This Tract is a perfect for a private home site and possible division. Paved road access, located North of Spanish Fort and I-10, and close to Mobile-Tensaw Delta boat launches. West of Bay Minette, south of Stockton and I-65
Grand Bay Mobile, AL
Acreage: 20 Acres +/- Location: Near Grand Bay, Alabama Price: $100,000
Property Overview:
20.00 +- acres slightly west of Grand Bay south of U.S. Highway 90 and Saeger Road, south of Oak Street on Woodlands Street in fast growing southwest Mobile County, Alabama This Tract is a perfect for a private home site and possible division. There is paved road access. 660’ X 1,320’, located close to I-10 and the Mississippi Coast Casinos
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Talked with a deer hunting group the other day who hunts on river bottom land in southeastern Mississippi. He told me they don’t have hog problems. I told him that it was very unusual and not to be surprised if they didn’t start showing up.As wild pigs continue to spread, more and more landowners find themselves in the position of having to do something about it. Whether you are new to landownership or your property has been in your family for generations, you may find yourself asking, “What do I do?” Don’t worry, you are not alone. Our Wild Wonderins blog provides some tips on how to start effectively managing wild pigs on your property: ow.ly/73kT50wM3El.
5 days ago
They here to stay ain’t they? They fun to shoot. Just can’t shoot enough to keep em thinned down.
Sometimes when you have a camera and all set for some thrilling footage they don’t fall in! HahahhahThanks to so many who have recently joined us here on the Travis Timberlands page. We really appreciate your support and hope that our posts entertain and inform folks about the natural resources and lands of Alabama and Mississippi.
Many may know our good friend crossing the creek on the log and like me hoped he would fall in so I could have captured some real good footage.
We would love to see some of your photos where somebody did fall in the creek. Kids enjoying the outdoors, dogs and stuck trucks and all that kind of stuff.
Thanks again!
Ed & Tyler Travis
#travistimberlands #wesellland #weselltimber #forests #wildplacesoutdoors #buyland #timbersales #realestate #travisforestry #takeakidhunting
6 days ago
Bet a lot are praying for the rain we have today. Early food plot planters may have lost some of their fields. While we don’t believe in the permanence of global warming in the big scheme of 1000 year earth events, the old adage of planting right after Labor Day has gone by the wayside the last several years.
Guess that why we are called “Drought Breakers”. If we moved a logging crew to a desert there will be record rainfalls! Hahahah. Its seems true!
Don’t worry about the Farmer’s Almanac just call us!
#travistimberlands #foodplots #wesellland #buyland #logging #timbersales #forestry #outdooralabama #outdoormississippi #realestate #landsales
6 days ago
I ain’t bragging but I planted my plots at home yesterday afternoon! Lol! 🤷🏻♂️
I had the honor of attending my son's field trip this past Friday at the Pratt Turner Conservation Center. His kindergarten class got a hands on learning experience of Alabama's forest resources through the Classroom in the Forest program. As a parent, I am so thankful for a hands on learning experience provided by the CIF program. As a forester it makes me proud to see future generations learning about the forests that produce the products that enrich our lives on a daily basis.
1 week ago
It’s very dry right now and lots of fuel is available to have catastrophic wild fires here on the Gulf Coast!Our latest edition of Fire Lines is now available! Volume 9 Issue 4 includes the latest research on how longer dry seasons could lengthen fire seasons, upcoming SFE workshops and webinars, and all the latest fire science news, publications, and resources.
Read it here: mailchi.mp/d5206f077eba/fire-lines-newsletter-volume-9-issue-1229405?e=[UNIQID]
2 weeks ago
Will the dog hunt? Big questions to answer in land and timber sales today! Please share and comment.Some of the issues that we deal with on a regular basis include evaluating the impact of internal and external property access.
Access takes on many facets including, legal, physical, environmental, financial feasibility and other principles of real estate economics.
One principle is Marginal Contribution which is used often in appraisal theory. This concept helps us decide on access decisions. These decisions include questions of how does a capital expenditure impact the price we offer or accept? If we spend $20,000.00 on road upgrades does this expenditure add value to offset its hard money cost? Sometimes yes but often no.
One must think beyond the immediate problem and also study the impact on the sale value of timber that will be harvested and would require use of the road improvement. You can be assured that poor internal access will destroy a timber sale effort as the logger has to repair access roads and crossings on and off the property. This is especially critical today in logging feasibility.
How far does the logger have to haul loads and then make BMP repairs? You must consider not only the issues posed by the subject tract but external factors of access across other owners to use your land and or harvest timber.
Sometimes cost feasibility questions are a no brainer but in many situations things get real murky. Thinking outside the box and focusing on external access as well as internal access issues is the real deal when planning a land sale and or a timber harvest.
In other words before a serious capital investment is made we need to know if the dog will hunt or will he just sit on the porch and scratch!
#travistimberlands #bestmanagementpractices #wesellland #landsales #timbersales #marginalcontribution #costfeasibility #willthedoghunt #travisforestry
2 weeks ago
Another off market tract with access issues closed today. We managed this tract along with others for a long time client who is an absentee land owner.
Major physical creek crossing issues, off tract, influenced this sale even if legal access was potentially available.Closed an 80 acre sale today in Choctaw County, Alabama. Another tract where access was an issue.
Great working with Kirk Neal of Canebreak Forestry who procured a buyer. We worked for the seller.
#travistimberlands #wesellland #buyland #timberland #huntingland #choctawcountyalabama #travisforestry
2 weeks ago
Nothing like a young merchantable Longleaf pine stand. Many pole grade trees straight as an arrow.
#travisforestry #timbercruise #weselltimber #wesellland #longleafpine #forestproducts #pinepoles #travistimberlands
2 weeks ago
We are cruising the timber on a fine stand of young merchantable Longleaf pine. Giving time before a thin makes a huge difference in tree grade potential. Tree form and height is good and many smaller poles will be tallied in this stand. #travistimberlands #longleafpine #pinuspalustris #weselltimber #wesellland #pinepoles #timbercruise #timbersale #forestinventory #travisforestry
3 weeks ago
These off market sales are challenging and some take years to work out. Some never work out.
Takes a lot of sitting on the front porch drinking iced tea and thinking of options and trade offs to make a sale happen.
It’s rewarding to work out a rough deal and help to make it happen. So many issues and people involved who live all over the country.
Feeling lucky today but that too will change!Closed a sale yesterday in Clarke County, Alabama. Tract had no legal access but with some serious research and horse trading we were able to work the details out between parties.
It took a team to make it happen. The Seller and buyer, a lender and closing attorney. These sales are very challenging but so rewarding. Like putting a wrecked train back on the track in most cases.
Y’all know we stress access a lot here but it is a deal breaker in many transactions.
Sometimes the stars line up and things are all right with the world. It takes those conditions for some of these sales to go together plus a lot of luck too!
#travistimberlands #clarkecountyalabama #wesellland #buyland #legalaccess #land #travisforestry
3 weeks ago
Large Diamondback Rattlesnake with a rabbitt in it's mouth seen while cruising timber yesterday !
3 weeks ago
Still pic !
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Timber lease coming to an end soon? What should the land owner do?
We have lots of experience with terminating timber leases and how to prepare for the day when the rent stops coming in and then you have to manage the land, post lease. This can be somewhat daunting as many leases have been in place since the 1950’s before some owners were even born.
Waiting until the property is turned over at lease expiration is way too late to get a grip on what will happen at the end of the lease term. Some serious hand holding should be done between the land owner/ lessor and the vacating tenant/lessee during the last five years of the lease.
Many long term leases are somewhat vague in regards to what is the condition of the property that will be left when the term ends.
Some serious litigation has occurred between lessor/owners and lessees about lease termination performance issues and interpreting what good forestry practices are relative to the 1960’s and today.
We are starting a project now on estimating what the condition should be at lease termination for some clients to make internal decisions.
Like most forest holdings there are numerous stands that will be harvested or thinned during the last years of the lease. Questions arise like, what will we get when its over? Will we get what we are supposed to get when the property reverts back to us? Who is going to fix our roads and crossings? Who will assist us going forward under our management plans? Do we even have a plan?
Unfortunately many leased fee owners do not have a plan and many forget or ignore the rights of the lessee who owns the timber until the lease is over. The buzzard coming home to roost can get real very fast.
We suggest having a professional forestry consultant work closely with the timber lessee especially during the last five years of the lease to try to estimate what the property and stand conditions will be. This helps to quell discord and full scale war big time.
Forecasting operations based on tenant plans and estimating stand ages by specie, merchantable or pre-merchantable volumes or ages at the end of the lease will burn up a laptop with what if scenarios.
Since the future is unknown and biological risks and losses can not be contemplated current prices and practices are used to make such forecasts. Nobody has a crystal ball in the timber industry ,especially during these days.
This post is not designed to explain all the procedures but to inform land owners to not go to sleep at the wheel and wait until the horse is out of the barn and running down the highway to begin this complicated process.
If you or your family is facing a similar situation we will be glad to discuss how we might assist in the orderly transfer of the property back to you at lease end. We have seen how a much better transition can occur and the possibility to save thousands in legal fees if folks get their lips all stuck out and go to law suiting, as a friend of ours used to say.
#travistimberlands #longtermtimberleases #consultingforestry #makeaplannow #
4 weeks ago
Sorry for the long post. Should have made a blog post out of this one.
Nah man! That is a good and very informational post!
Science, ecology, biology, and natural history all promote the use of prescribed fire across our southeastern landscape. At Edward F. Travis Company, Inc., we promote ecological based forestry practices while growing forest products that our society can not function without !THROWBACK THURSDAY:
Long before European settlers arrived in America Native Americans were actively managing forested areas through burning. The main purpose of these burns was to keep forbs and grasses growing in the understory. With more forbs/grasses in the understory traveling was easier, there was more food available to wildlife which made hunting easier, and the grasses would be used for crafts and basket weaving.
When European settlers arrived they would have entered into forests looking much like the 2nd picture. These pine savannah forests covered the southeastern coastal landscape. With their arrival burning practices effectively ceased for several hundred years and massive deforestation took place. The purpose of this deforestation was mostly to get ship building materials, called naval stores. However the land was cleared extensively for agricultural use as well.
Foresters in the United States now understand the importance of fire and what a useful tool it can be for management. Not every fire is a bad fire. We also understand the importance of monitoring our forests to prevent mass deforestation.
#SAF #APSAF #northcarolina #throwbackthursday #tbt #nativeamericans #fire #prescribedfire #history #lessonslearned #ncforestservice #ncstateforestry #NC #forestry #forest #treestagram #oldendays #sustainability #usforestservice #treestagram
1 month ago
Forestry people stop to do things to help when others pass by. Thanks to Will Autry of Larson & McGowin who stopped to help an old friend and his wife when their vehicle broke down in high heat in Mobile.
Great job Will! Thanks from Bill Moody and me.
1 month ago
Thanks to Will and yourself! Both are very kind people.
We want to make Instagram rock for Travis Timberlands. If you have Instagram marketing skills we would like to discuss you helping us maximize this media for our business. We are in the land selling and forestry business and want to find someone in the Mobile, Alabama area who can serve as a marketing consultant to help us.
Call us at 251-407-1467 or respond to this post.
Thanks
1 month ago