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April to June 2010

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 April to June 2010 is out: 385 price lines across 16 of 80 management units and 25 species.

The Michigan Timber Index for sawtimber has no reading for this quarter; pulpwood moved up.

Up statewide: mixed aspen, bigtooth aspen, sugar maple sawtimber.

Up statewide: jack pine, red pine, mixed aspen pulpwood. Down: mixed oak, bigtooth aspen.

Of the 217 state sales opened this quarter, 210 sold and 7 drew no bid — 3% — with 5.6 bidders on a sold sale on average.

The previous quarter (Jan–Mar 2010) opened 208 sales, 10 no-bid — 5%; the same quarter a year earlier (Apr–Jun 2009) opened 210, 33 no-bid — 16%.

The figures behind every line — every price, every receipt — are in the record at stumpage.net.

What this edition holds

Price lines385reported in this edition
Management units16 of 80reported a price line
Species25with at least one line
State sales opened217210 sold · 7 drew no bid

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