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January to March 2023

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 2023 is out: 479 price lines across 15 of 80 management units and 26 species.

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

Up statewide: paper birch, basswood, white oak sawtimber. Down: sugar maple, black cherry, red maple.

Up statewide: mixed spruce, balsam fir, red pine pulpwood. Down: mixed oak.

Of the 124 state sales opened this quarter, 112 sold and 12 drew no bid — 10% — with 3.5 bidders on a sold sale on average.

The previous quarter (Oct–Dec 2022) opened 108 sales, 21 no-bid — 19%; the same quarter a year earlier (Jan–Mar 2022) opened 126, 14 no-bid — 11%.

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 units15 of 80reported a price line
Species26with at least one line
State sales opened124112 sold · 12 drew no bid

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