January to March 2013
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 2013 is out: 403 price lines across 14 of 80 management units and 25 species.
The Michigan Timber Index for sawtimber has no reading for this quarter; pulpwood moved up.
Down statewide: red oak, mixed aspen, red pine sawtimber.
Up statewide: jack pine, mixed softwood, quaking aspen pulpwood. Down: mixed oak, red pine, red maple.
Of the 166 state sales opened this quarter, 148 sold and 18 drew no bid — 11% — with 2.7 bidders on a sold sale on average.
The previous quarter (Oct–Dec 2012) opened 181 sales, 20 no-bid — 11%; the same quarter a year earlier (Jan–Mar 2012) opened 166, 8 no-bid — 5%.
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
- 01-01-2013 to 03-31-2013.CSVfetched Aug 20, 2026
- Stumpage Report 01-01-2013 to 03-31-2013.pdffetched Aug 20, 2026