October to December 2012
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 October to December 2012 is out: 442 price lines across 16 of 80 management units and 26 species.
The Michigan Timber Index for sawtimber has no reading for this quarter; pulpwood moved down.
Up statewide: red maple, red pine, red oak sawtimber. Down: sugar maple.
Up statewide: red maple, bigtooth aspen, mixed aspen pulpwood. Down: quaking aspen, white pine, jack pine.
Of the 181 state sales opened this quarter, 161 sold and 20 drew no bid — 11% — with 3.0 bidders on a sold sale on average.
The previous quarter (Jul–Sep 2012) opened 172 sales, 18 no-bid — 10%; the same quarter a year earlier (Oct–Dec 2011) opened 122, 2 no-bid — 2%.
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
- 10-01-2012 to 12-31-2012.CSVfetched Aug 20, 2026
- Stumpage Report 10-01-2012 to 12-31-2012.pdffetched Aug 20, 2026