January to March 2014
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 2014 is out: 376 price lines across 14 of 80 management units and 29 species.
The Michigan Timber Index for sawtimber has no reading for this quarter; pulpwood moved up.
Up statewide: mixed oak, sugar maple, red maple sawtimber. Down: red pine.
Up statewide: mixed softwood, quaking aspen pulpwood. Down: red maple, mixed oak, jack pine.
Of the 169 state sales opened this quarter, 146 sold and 23 drew no bid — 14% — with 3.7 bidders on a sold sale on average.
The previous quarter (Oct–Dec 2013) opened 144 sales, 38 no-bid — 26%; the same quarter a year earlier (Jan–Mar 2013) opened 166, 18 no-bid — 11%.
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
- 01-01-2014 to 03-31-2014.CSVfetched Aug 20, 2026
- Stumpage Report 01-01-2014 to 03-31-2014.pdffetched Aug 20, 2026