If you're serious about selling some wood, or serious about improving your forested property, ask around about a forester. University extension offices can help you find good help.
You can get away with a good LOGGER, but there are all sorts of personalities out there. Always go look at jobs the logger has done and see if you like them. My landlord is a logger, his company has done a number of private projects with satisfied customers, but he's not cheap. The right kind of equipment is expensive, and you CAN'T do it yourself unless you're willing to do it every year and never back off.
One final thought. On almost all these projects, when we've gone over the end result, we almost always wish we'd taken just a few more trees, about 2/3 of the clients agreed immediately. Usually looks great and grows even greater, but it grows....so I'd really think hard about taking off just THAT much more, makes results last longer.
