January to March 2016
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 2016 is out: 373 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 down.
Up statewide: red maple, mixed oak, mixed aspen sawtimber. Down: sugar maple, red pine.
Up statewide: mixed oak, quaking aspen, red maple pulpwood. Down: mixed aspen, mixed softwood, red pine.
Of the 173 state sales opened this quarter, 141 sold and 32 drew no bid (18%), with 3.8 bidders on a sold sale on average.
The previous quarter (Oct–Dec 2015) opened 113 sales, 16 no-bid (14%); the same quarter a year earlier (Jan–Mar 2015) opened 207, 13 no-bid (6%).
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
- 01-01-2016 to 03-31-2016.CSVfetched Aug 20, 2026
- Stumpage Report 01-01-2016 to 03-31-2016.pdffetched Aug 20, 2026