The office
behind the name.

Our family has ties to Texas and Montana that go back a few generations. Land, ranching, and minerals have all shown up in the family story at different points. Timberline is the current chapter: a small office focused on helping individual mineral owners think through decisions about their rights.

We are a small shop by choice. Smaller means we do our own research. Smaller means we answer our own phones. Smaller means when you call, you talk to one of us, not a routing system and a department.

This is also why we are based in Buda, Texas instead of Houston or Denver. Quieter town, smaller overhead, more time to focus on the work.

An email or a phone call from someone who inherited mineral rights and is not sure what they have. A letter in the mail that they do not fully understand. An estate that needs sorting out. A deed tucked in a filing cabinet that nobody opened for twenty years.

We help in different ways depending on the situation. Sometimes it is a phone call to explain what a division order is, or what a legal description means, or whether a particular tract is leased or producing. Sometimes it is research into what we think the rights are worth and why. Sometimes it is an offer to buy, if that is what the person wants and the fit is right.

Often it is just a conversation. That is fine too.

The mineral rights world has a bad reputation, and it earns that reputation regularly. Cold letters with lowball offers. Pressure tactics and deadlines that are not really deadlines. Forms designed to confuse rather than explain.

We do not work that way. We believe the right outcomes come from honest information, slow conversations, and time to think. If you talk with us and decide to hold your minerals for the next generation, that is often the right choice. If you decide to sell, we want you to understand the terms and feel confident about the number.

We would rather lose a deal than close one you regret. This approach is slower. It does not scale the way some of our competitors do. We are fine with that.

Our work takes us across the country to wherever a family has inherited mineral rights. The American oil and gas business is concentrated in a handful of regions, and we pay close attention to all of them.

That includes the Permian Basin in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, the DJ Basin in Colorado and southern Wyoming, the Powder River Basin and Williston Basin further north in Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota, the Eagle Ford in South Texas, the Anadarko Basin in Oklahoma, the Uinta Basin in Utah, the Marcellus and Utica plays in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, and the Haynesville in Louisiana and East Texas. We work each of them with the same kind of attention, and we have county-level depth across the footprint.

If you are not sure whether your minerals fall in our coverage area, the easiest thing to do is call or send a note. We do this work every day and can usually orient you in a single conversation.