Each year, LandVest processes enough paper trip tickets generated through timber harvesting and log transportation activities that, if laid end to end, they would stretch roughly 13 miles. That volume of paperwork has long been a necessary part of moving wood from the forest to the mill, but it also reflects a workflow that has remained largely unchanged across much of the forest industry for decades.
To modernize that process, LandVest Forest Resources is rolling out a digital trip ticket system across its Northeast operations — the latest step in the firm's long-running investment in smarter, more efficient forest management systems.
Over the next year, traditional paper tickets will gradually be replaced with a digital platform developed by Waldo Solutions. The shift will reduce manual data entry, simplify reporting, improve certification tracking, and create faster visibility across harvesting operations.
For logging contractors and truckers, the new system removes much of the manual work associated with paper trip books, scale slips, and weekly shipping summaries. For landowners and managers, it delivers cleaner data, greater operational transparency, and faster reporting from the woods to the office. Certification information can also be programmed directly into individual jobs, helping reduce errors and improve chain-of-custody consistency.
The rollout will begin in northern Maine before expanding across New York and northern New England operations. Throughout the process, LandVest has worked closely with logging contractors and mill partners to keep the transition practical, flexible, and field-driven.
More broadly, the initiative reflects LandVest’s long-held belief that effective forest management depends as much on operational execution as it does on silviculture, inventory, and market strategy. The digital trip ticket rollout is one more step toward improving efficiency, accountability, and transparency across the management of working forests.
About Steven Hawkes
Steven Hawkes, as Vice President of LandVest’s Forest Resources Division, is responsible for all aspects of LandVest’s forest management and consulting business from Virginia to Maine, as well as the Pacific Northwest.
LandVest manages over 2.25 million acres of timberland with a staff of over 60 foresters, GIS professionals, biometricians, environmental specialists, surveyors and operational support personnel. Offices and key personnel are located in the primary timber growing regions of the Northeast United States and Olympia, Washington. Mr. Hawkes has 35 years of experience in nearly all facets of forest management, including management of non-industrial private forestlands and investment-grade timberlands for Timberland Investment Management Organizations (TIMO’s), high-profile institutional endowments and high-net worth families.
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