A person is allowed to own all or part of the standing timber on any given piece of real property without actually owning the land on which it grows. It’s considered part of the bundle of rights to land, most of which can be sold separately. Timber deeds are written in many different ways. Some allow for perpetuity, while others allow for logging within a certain period of time, after which the deed is extinguished. Depending on the specific deed, the owner of the timber may take all of the trees, only trees over a certain size or only trees of a certain species. If the timber will not be included in the sale of the land it will show up as an exception in the title commitment.