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January to March 2022

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 2022 is out: 479 price lines across 14 of 80 management units and 26 species.

The Michigan Timber Index for sawtimber moved up this quarter; pulpwood moved up.

Up statewide: sugar maple, white pine, mixed aspen sawtimber. Down: white oak, red oak, red pine.

Up statewide: basswood, mixed oak, jack pine pulpwood. Down: mixed spruce, paper birch.

Of the 126 state sales opened this quarter, 112 sold and 14 drew no bid — 11% — with 3.9 bidders on a sold sale on average.

The previous quarter (Oct–Dec 2021) opened 150 sales, 15 no-bid — 10%; the same quarter a year earlier (Jan–Mar 2021) opened 121, 14 no-bid — 12%.

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

What this edition holds

Price lines479reported in this edition
Management units14 of 80reported a price line
Species26with at least one line
State sales opened126112 sold · 14 drew no bid

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