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October to December 2025

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 October to December 2025 is out: 436 price lines across 15 of 80 management units and 23 species.

The Michigan Timber Index for sawtimber moved down this quarter; pulpwood held steady.

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

Up statewide: mixed oak pulpwood. Down: paper birch, white pine, mixed aspen.

Of the 140 state sales opened this quarter, 102 sold and 38 drew no bid — 27% — with 2.3 bidders on a sold sale on average.

The previous quarter (Jul–Sep 2025) opened 150 sales, 41 no-bid — 27%; the same quarter a year earlier (Oct–Dec 2024) opened 107, 26 no-bid — 24%.

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

What this edition holds

Price lines436reported in this edition
Management units15 of 80reported a price line
Species23with at least one line
State sales opened140102 sold · 38 drew no bid

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