and Audit Services




DRM is committed to supporting the integrity of the forest industry through active fraud prevention, early detection and effective resolution strategies that work synergistically to bolster your company’s timber security program. DRM provides state-of-the-art timber security services, theft assessments, trespass investigations, and operational audits.
DRM professionals combine over 75 years of forest industry and timber security experience as well as extensive training in timber security and Fraud Examiner Certification. DRM brings an independent, professional and confidential third party perspective that can be applied to customized programs to meet specific company needs.
Some of the largest forest industry frauds have been committed in the scale house by falsifying the data in some way and directing payments towards the scalers benefit. One of the largest documented frauds in the US was for $6.7 million dollars.
The objective of a Harvesting audit is to provide management with assurance that harvesting on their timberland is meeting and surpassing company and environmental guidelines as the harvests are planned, executed and completed.
Dendro Resource Management, Inc.’s GroundTruth Audit provides independent field verification of timber tract coordinates by physically visiting reported harvesting locations and documenting site activity.
DRM can assist your internal audit department by supplying 32 years of operational forest industry experience. Those years of operational auditing mean we can assist by making the complex forest industry supply chain, wood procurement systems and inventory management processes easy to understand and audit. Hiring a subject matter expert from DRM to supplement your internal audit staff can greatly enhance the internal audit team of any company.
Designed for those with pension funds invested in TIMO’s these audits provide you the investor that timberland operations are being conducted in a way that meets their fiduciary responsibilities.
An overview of the operations of any forest industry company is to identify the business control environment. Once the controls are identified they can be tested and verified to assure management that controls are limiting theft and fraud within any organization. Any week controls identified will with management’s assistance be enhanced or modified to limit any possible theft and fraud.
A robust timber security hotline enables any organization to gather tips from the supply chain and create an effective “neighborhood watch” system in regional timberland operations.
Our theft and fraud prevention package brings all our audit programs together to work synergistically within your organization to provide the maximum level of service to your company operations.
Dendro Resource Management, Inc. has perfected a comprehensive contractor risk assessment process to provide our clients with a risk rating for each contractor working.
Using the latest satellite technology, DRM is proud to announce our newest tool to assist remote landowners with monitoring their property without ever having to step foot on the property.
A company’s policies and procedure manual is designed to clearly express the operating parameters for any company. In forest operations, the manual covers everything from contract execution expectations, purchasing limits, expenses account processes and forest practices to be followed. And many other items too numerous to mention here.
We use Dendro Resource Management to administer our theft deterrent program and many other facets of our timber security system. After working with Aaron and his team for over 9 years now, I have come to realize that our program would not be as encompassed or successful if we had tried to administer these programs ourselves. Aaron’s deep knowledge of timber security and our industry as a whole has been a real asset to us. The DRM team is very responsive and effective in helping us manage our timber security concerns.
DRM has done a great job helping Domain Timber Advisors add an additional layer of oversight to our timber sale fraud prevention and forestry operations compliance programs. We greatly appreciate their attention to detail and thorough approach.







