The History of Our Forest Consulting Company

The History of Our Forest Consulting Company

Trust the experienced forest consulting services from our company in Ballston Spa, New York. William Mackay formed the Lumac Company in 1962. For ten years, he ran a wood products business with the 6,500-acre Luther Forest as his resource base. The following decades saw an overwhelming demand by the forest land owning public for private forestry services. To fill this demand, our company added staff and expanded the forest management activities to local landowners in need of assistance.

Contact us in Ballston Spa, New York, in (518) 899-2745 for more information about our forest land management services.

In the years that followed, the company expanded its staff of foresters and support personnel to accommodate the demand for forest land management services in eastern New York and Connecticut, while continuing to manage the Luther Forest property. With the addition of Bob Rice, Chris Nelson, Alec Mackay, Chuck Gerber, Pete Nicholas, and Brett Joly, Lumac has been able to expand its scope of services and service territory from the capital district of New York to include central, western, and northern New York. In 1987, Bob, Alec, Chuck, and Chris became the owners of Lumac, as cofounder Bill Mackay retired. The year 1988 saw the founding of Saratoga Land Management Corp.

1.		Resource Management Professionals to Develop Management Strategies and Plans Where Appropriate in addition to Project Layout and Supervision
2.		Competent Wood Crews to Carry out the Management Work Required
3.		Marketing Personnel Directing Forest Products to Optimum Markets to the Benefit of All Involved
4.		Trucking Equipment and Personnel to Control Product Flow

At the outset, this group of professionals dedicated themselves not only to ecologically sound forest management principles, but also to the landowners they serve. Management plans are designed using a common sense approach of integrating these principles with landowner goals and objectives. Call us at (518) 899-2745 for details.

With an ever-growing client base needing more and more diverse ownership objectives, Saratoga Land Management Corp. created Forest Solutions in 1996. Forest Solutions brings consulting services to landowners across the state who need assistance in forest land assessment, forest taxation, timber sale planning and implementation, as well as general information regarding forest management.