LandVest Forest Resources manages over 2.25 million acres of timberland across the Northeast and Pacific Northwest, serving private landowners, Timberland Investment Management Organizations (TIMOs), high-profile institutional endowments, and conservation groups. With over 55 years in forest management and a staff of more than 60 foresters, GIS professionals, biometricians, and field specialists, LandVest operates one of the most complex and consequential forestry consulting and management programs in the country.
Each year, that scale generates enough paper trip tickets — from timber harvesting and log transportation alone — that if laid end to end, they would stretch roughly 13 miles. For decades, managing that paper volume was simply the cost of doing business. In 2026, LandVest decided to change that.
Paper trip books, scale slips, and weekly shipping summaries have been the standard operating procedure across the timber supply chain for generations. For a firm managing LandVest's scale — with logging contractors, truckers, mill partners, and landowners all connected through those paper chains — the operational costs were real: manual data entry at every step, slow reporting from the field to the office, inconsistent certification tracking, and no real-time visibility into what was moving where.
For logging contractors and truckers, the burden was weekly: manually compiling paper records and shipping summaries that then required re-entry by back-office staff. For landowners and managers, information from active harvest jobs was delayed and fragmented. For LandVest's foresters, keeping FSC and SFI certification data accurate across dozens of simultaneous jobs — each with different cert requirements — was a persistent source of errors and reconciliation work.
LandVest selected Waldo to replace paper trip ticketing across its Northeast operations. Beginning in northern Maine, the rollout will progressively expand to New York and across northern New England over the course of the year.
The transition was designed from the ground up to be field-driven and practical. Throughout the process, LandVest worked closely with logging contractors and mill partners to keep adoption realistic in the woods — not just on paper. The Waldo platform was configured to LandVest's existing job structures, with certification information programmed directly into individual harvest jobs so that FSC and SFI tracking happens automatically at ticket creation rather than through manual lookups or retroactive data cleanup.
"The shift will reduce manual data entry, simplify reporting, improve certification tracking, and create faster visibility across harvesting operations — for logging contractors, truckers, landowners, and managers alike." ~Steven Hawkes · VP, Forest Resources Division, LandVest
For contractors and truckers, the new workflow removes the need for paper trip books and weekly summary prep. Digital tickets are created in the field and instantly visible to all parties. For landowners and managers, that means real-time transparency into active harvest jobs — from load counts to species breakdowns — without waiting for end-of-week reports.
Rather than a forced cutover, LandVest structured the Waldo rollout as a deliberate, region-by-region deployment — keeping the transition practical for contractors and mills who are active in the woods today.
Deployment Sequence · 2026
Phase 1: Northern Maine — Initial deployment; logging contractors and mill partners onboarded; field feedback integrated
Phase 2: New York operations — Expansion based on Maine learnings; certification job configs replicated
Phase 3: Northern New England — Full Northeast coverage; paper trip tickets retired across all LandVest-managed operations in region
Less Paper. More Signal.
The LandVest digital trip ticket rollout reflects a conviction the firm has held for decades: that effective forest management depends as much on operational execution as it does on silviculture, inventory, and market strategy. The shift to Waldo is not a technology project — it is a management improvement, one more step toward greater efficiency, accountability, and transparency across the working forests LandVest manages on behalf of its clients.
For the broader industry, a firm of LandVest's standing making this move is a signal. When the second-largest forestry service provider in the U.S. replaces paper with digital — across its entire Northeast operation, in partnership with its contractor and mill network — it demonstrates that the workflow shift is not only feasible, it is overdue.
Paper trip tickets eliminated across Northeast ops
FSC/SFI auto-attached on every load — no manual cert lookups
Real-time visibility for landowners and managers
Manual data entry removed for truckers and contractors
Faster, cleaner reporting from woods to office
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