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Mist rolling over a coniferous forest at dawn
Family-owned since 1987

Harvest with respect.
Build with strength.

Ridgeback fells, hauls and mills timber across the Pacific Northwest — with crews who treat every stand like their own backyard.

Lumberjack cutting birch logs with a chainsaw
Selective Harvesting

Precision felling in every terrain.

Steep slopes, wet ground, tight access. Our certified fallers and mechanised crews harvest cleanly while protecting the trees that stay.

Heavy machinery stacking timber logs at the Ridgeback log yard
Log Yard & Sawmill

From stump to sawmill, under one roof.

Our own trucks, our own yard and our own mill mean fewer hand-offs, tighter schedules and lumber you can trace to the stand it came from.

Tall trees in a misty, healthy forest
Sustainability

Every tree we take, we replace twice.

More than 3 million seedlings planted, certified chain of custody and a 2030 plan to make every acre we touch healthier than we found it.

38+Years in the woods
1,200+Projects delivered
3.2MSeedlings planted
0Lost-time incidents in 2025
Ridgeback faller in yellow protective trousers cutting a log
1987Founded by the Halvorsen family
Who we are

Three generations of sawdust, grit and good judgement.

What began with one saw, one pickup and a handshake contract has grown into a full-service timber company — yet we still answer our own phones and walk every harvest unit before the first tree comes down.

We combine hand-felling skill with modern mechanised equipment, GPS-planned roads and a sawmill that turns what we cut into graded, kiln-dried lumber. The result: less waste, safer sites, and timber that moves from forest to customer without leaving our hands.

  • Licensed, bonded and fully insured operations
  • Registered professional foresters on every plan
  • One accountable crew from first cut to final delivery
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What we do

Six ways we put timber to work

From a single hazardous oak to a multi-thousand-acre harvest, our crews bring the same discipline to every job.

01Forestry worker cutting logs with a chainsaw

Selective Harvesting

Low-impact thinning and select-cut harvests designed by registered foresters to keep stands healthy and productive.

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02Stacks of milled lumber in the Ridgeback yard

Milling & Lumber

Dimensional lumber, beams, slabs and custom cuts — graded, kiln-dried and ready for the jobsite.

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03Worker clearing tree branches with a chainsaw

Land Clearing

Right-of-way, building-lot and fire-break clearing with stump grinding, chipping and full site clean-up.

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04Tractor lifting tree logs in a timber yard

Log Hauling

A modern fleet of log trucks and loaders moving round-wood to mills, ports and processing yards on schedule.

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05Managed pine forest covered in morning mist

Forest Management

Inventory cruising, harvest planning, reforestation and fire-risk reduction for private landowners and trusts.

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06Arborist climbing a tree to remove it in sections

Hazard Tree Removal

Climbing and crane-assisted removal of dangerous, storm-damaged or diseased trees near homes and power lines.

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Let's get to work

Got timber to cut, haul or mill?

Tell us about your land or your lumber order. We'll walk the site, put a plan and a firm price in writing, and have a crew mobilised in as little as two weeks.

2 : 1Trees replanted for every tree harvested
100%Of each log used — lumber, chips, bark and biomass
FSC®Certified chain of custody on request