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
The documents behind this note
- 01-01-2023 to 03-31-2023.xlsxfetched Aug 20, 2026
- Stumpage Report 01-01-2023 to 03-31-2023.pdffetched Aug 20, 2026