Mark Brian

East Texas native Mark Brian earned his forestry degree from Stephen F. Austin State University in 1978 and began his career assisting private forest landowners across the southern U.S. with identifying and achieving their ecological and financial goals. Typically working for absentee landowners during this time, Mark became skilled in real estate issues such as titles, boundary lines, taxation, and access. In 1996, Mark merged his business with Bird Forestry, and for the past 20-plus years, has been involved in a myriad of projects such as due diligence evaluations of real estate acquisitions, land resource inventories and investment feasibility studies. In addition, his training and expertise has included evaluation and implementation of conservation easements on private lands. Bird Forestry's integration into Advanced Ecology in 2005 provided Mark the opportunity to work with the AEL team where he acquired insight into environmental studies, wetland delineations, recreational value enhancements, and native grassland management. Mark brings to Terrastone four decades of assessing, managing and evaluating land on a wide variety of landscapes, plus the ability to rapidly assess ecological, economic and recreational aspects, offering an invaluable resource to both buyers and sellers.