AEL serves a diverse spectrum of clientele in the public and private sector in both a forestry and environmental capacity.  AEL offers a highly personalized service, customized to meet each client’s goals and objectives.  A sample of our forest landowners and the services provided are listed as follows:

JFS Timber Partners, LTD
Since 1980, AEL has managed and conducted all forestry operations for JFS Timber Partners, LTD (JFS).  The land base consists of thirty-plus properties located in five East Texas counties and one Louisiana parish.  Forestry operations include in depth inventories and appraisals, quarterly property inspections, forest product sales, harvesting supervisions, reforestation and wildlife management.  Total acreage of JFS consists of 6,500+ acres.

Lone Star Steel Company
AEL began providing land management services for Lone Star Steel Company (LSS) in early 2005.  Our initial service was to evaluate all surface ownership rights owned by LSS in Texas and Oklahoma.  This role eventually turned into a total land management service in which our responsibilities include evaluating mineral rights, timber product sales, boundary maintenance, property lease preparations, timber product sales and reforestation on 7,000+ acres. 

Attoyac River Ranch
The Attoyac River Ranch (ARR) is a classic example of our clientele.  This family-based forestry investment client approached us for assistance on 1,100 acres of timberland in Nacogdoches County.  Activities on this farm have included resource management planning, forest product sales and intensive reforestation activities.  Wildlife habitat management and enhancement continue to be on-going activities on this farm.  We have also functioned as a preliminary assessment team in ARR’s continued acquisition of additional forestlands in East Texas.  Further consultations on taxation, pond building, and road maintenance have assisted ARR in the management of their properties.

Jerry Brockett
Jerry Brockett, a Dallas businessman, is currently retaining the services of AEL.  AEL assists Mr. Brockett in managing 6 tracts totaling approximately 700 acres in East Texas.  Activities include forest product sales, oil and gas damage appraisals and wildlife management activities.

Durst Lakes
This family owned enterprise is breaking new ground in Cherokee County, Texas.  AEL has been assisting in the re-establishment of longleaf pine ecosystem, as well as an uneven-aged management system on loblolly-shortleaf pine.

In addition, AEL has completed special projects, appraisals and assessments for numerous other clients.  A partial list of these clients is listed below:

Industrial: Huntsman Petrochemical Corp. Lone Star Steel Co. Temple-Inland Forest Products Corp. Fina Oil & Chemical Co. Weyerhaeuser Mead Westvaco International Paper Co. Boise Cascade Corp. Allstate Insurance Co. Tyson Foods Oil & Gas: Hunt Petroleum Sklar Exploration Hopewell Oil & Gas Domain Energy Corp. FIG Energy Verado Energy, Inc. Union Pacific Resources Texaco Pennzoil Corp. Eagle Rock Energy Municipalities: City of Longview (Texas) City of Tyler (Texas) City of Nacogdoches (Texas) City of Lufkin (Texas) Jefferson County Drainage District No. 6 (Beaumont, Texas) Angelina County Appraisal District (Texas) Smith County Appraisal District (Texas)

Engineering & Architectural Firms: Adams Consulting Engineers KSA Engineers NRS Engineering Mesa Design Group MHS Planning and Design Hart Engineering Retailers/Real Estate Development: Lowe's Wal-Mart Rosewood Development Corporation Lennar Properties Whiteco Residential, Inc. Hillwood Development Klein & Associates Conservation Organizations & Government Agencies: Texas Parks and Wildlife U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Park Service Bureau of Land Management U.S. Army Corps of Engineers The Nature Conservancy The Conservation Fund Conservation Capital U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Forest Service

AEL’s forest landowner‘s holdings range from 10 acres to 7,500 acres in size.  We currently manage approximately 100,000+ acres of timberland for private non-industrial landowners in East Texas, Northwest Louisiana and Southern Arkansas.