January to March 2008
A quarterly summary of timber-price trends, reporting coverage and state timber-sale activity. Detailed prices and calculations are available to subscribers.
The MI DNR stumpage price report for January to March 2008 is out: 372 price lines across 16 of 80 management units and 24 species.
The Michigan Timber Index for sawtimber has no reading for this quarter; pulpwood moved down.
Up statewide: red oak sawtimber. Down: sugar maple, red pine.
Up statewide: mixed oak, quaking aspen pulpwood. Down: red pine, jack pine, bigtooth aspen.
Of the 181 state sales opened this quarter, 170 sold and 11 drew no bid — 6% — with 3.3 bidders on a sold sale on average.
The previous quarter (Oct–Dec 2007) opened 250 sales, 38 no-bid — 15%; the same quarter a year earlier (Jan–Mar 2007) opened 171, 46 no-bid — 27%.
The figures behind every line — every price, every receipt — are in the record at stumpage.net.
What this edition holds
The documents behind this note
- 01-01-2008 to 03-31-2008.CSVfetched Aug 20, 2026
- Stumpage Report 01-01-2008 to 03-31-2008.pdffetched Aug 20, 2026