Victor Musselman retired in March 2023 after fifty-one years as a consulting forester specializing in all aspects of timber and timberland valuation. He holds a graduate degree in Forest Management and Economics from Oregon State University. Throughout his career he has been a member of the Society of American Foresters (SAF Certified Forester) and he is a Washington small forestland owner managing a 112 acre tree farm in Pacific County.. He has been a member of the Washington Farm Forestry Association (WFFA) since 2008. He has also been a Co-Instructor of forest appraisal short courses at Duke University, Oregon State University and the World Forestry Center. Over the past twenty years he has actively worked his tree farm as a producing forest investment. He has had six harvests, planted all harvest units and thirteen acres of old fields with Douglas-fir, grand fir and red alder. He has maintained all the plantations with semi-annual timber stand improvement work. Taking into account all harvest income and expenses, including property taxes, his forest investment has so far earned a 5% Rate of Return annually.