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April to June 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 April to June 2022 is out: 513 price lines across 15 of 80 management units and 28 species.

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

Up statewide: paper birch, white pine, red pine sawtimber. Down: black cherry, sugar maple, mixed aspen.

Up statewide: basswood, paper birch, mixed aspen pulpwood. Down: mixed spruce, balsam fir.

Of the 149 state sales opened this quarter, 132 sold and 17 drew no bid — 11% — with 4.1 bidders on a sold sale on average.

The previous quarter (Jan–Mar 2022) opened 126 sales, 14 no-bid — 11%; the same quarter a year earlier (Apr–Jun 2021) opened 135, 8 no-bid — 6%.

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

What this edition holds

Price lines513reported in this edition
Management units15 of 80reported a price line
Species28with at least one line
State sales opened149132 sold · 17 drew no bid

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