Red Oak · sawtimber · one management unit
$312.40MBF
n=14 sales
Example price-report entry · illustrative
The Michigan stumpage price record.
Search timber prices, follow DNR sales and keep the evidence behind your research. Stumpage turns public records into working tools and is building an independent record of Michigan’s private timber market.
The private timber market
Private sales deserve a record of their own.
Private woodland reaches beyond Michigan’s state forests. Southern Michigan sales could bring black walnut, tulip-poplar and hickory markets into view. Results from qualified foresters and timber buyers can build evidence for those markets on their own terms.
We’re building that record. Regional results keep the species, product, unit, log rule and sale count visible. Reported whole-sale totals stay separate from species prices. The available evidence determines what can be shown.
Help build the private record →Public evidence, organized
Research the record behind the number.
Michigan DNR stumpage price reports dating back to 1994 — 164,568 price lines on file — searchable by species, region and reporting period, with links to source documents. Follow recorded bids, sale prospectuses and related research in one place.
Searchable report history begins in October 1994; coverage varies by reporting period, species and geography. State-forest price reports cover the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Peninsula. The separate bid record includes southern Michigan.
Example price record. For illustration only. These figures do not represent actual timber prices.
What each price record includes
- The unit, alwaysMBF, cords, tons — the price is quoted in the unit it sold in, never converted.
- The real rangeReported minimum and maximum prices across the included report lines, alongside the average.
- The receiptEvery price from the DNR record cites the source document it was drawn from.
For landowners selling timber
Most landowners sell timber once or twice in a lifetime. The buyer across the table does this every week. Stumpage puts Michigan’s market report history dating back to 1994 in front of you: what timber has sold for on the state forest land the DNR reports on — the Upper Peninsula and the northern Lower Peninsula — described plainly. The bid record covers the whole state. We describe the market — we never advise the trade.
Research tools for forestry professionals
Consulting foresters and timber buyers can follow a DNR offering from the supply pipeline to its prospectus, earlier bids and reported stumpage price history, then save the research in a workspace. Every DNR figure links to its source; contributed private-sale results stay separate and labeled.
Annual subscription plans
Basic — $500 a year. Everything built on the public DNR record: today’s prices, the index, every species and place, the bid record, the quarterly letter.
Pro — $1,500 a year. Basic, plus the contributed private-sale record. That is $1,000 a year more than Basic at the annual rate. Private-market coverage is being built; published sample counts show its reach.
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Public report history Oct 1994 – present. An independent private-sale record, built by contributors.