Serving Timberland Investors Worldwide
RMS' global headquarters is in Birmingham, Alabama in the heart of the world's largest, most diverse and most productive timber producing region – the U.S. Southeast.
RMS provides timberland investment management services to accredited investors, family offices and foundations seeking long-term investment opportunities. As a private, employee-owned company, RMS takes a long-term approach to its business and investor relationships. Founded in 1950, RMS brings decades of forestry and timberland investment experience to its work. We seek to enhance the biological, financial and societal value of working forests through integrated forestry and investment management.
Our global headquarters sits in Birmingham, Alabama, within one of the leading timber-producing regions in the United States. We maintain offices in the U.S. and Brazil, where we pursue alternative investment opportunities in core timberland regions for our investors.
RMS employs professionals across the core functions of the timberland investment value chain. As a timber investment management organization (TIMO), forestry is in our DNA.
Our multidisciplinary team has experience across timberland acquisition, due diligence, forest management, timber merchandising, land marketing, environmental stewardship and wildlife management.
Alex Hinson, President & CEO reflects on Our Company’s Identity
Through the Years
In 1950, John M. Bradley, a young Yale School of Forestry graduate, partnered with Harry E. Murphy, a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, to create Resource Management Service, Inc. What began as a consulting forestry firm for private landowners expanded into timberland management and acquisition services, built on a foundation of intensive, high-yield forestry.
Since entering the institutional timberland investment market in the mid-1980s, RMS has continued to develop its timberland investment and management systems and capabilities. Today, RMS manages timberland assets in multiple regions and remains a private, employee-owned company.
Creating Forest Value Since 1950