Information on Timber Prices

Guidelines for Timber Sellers:

• What is My Timber Worth, and How Do I Sell it?
• Selling Timber in text and streaming audio from North Carolina Extension Forestry

Price Information Sources:

• Timber Prices on the Web, find out if your state reports prices on the web
• Current State Contacts, drawn from Rosen and Carryl's 2000 contact list* (see bottom)

Articles about Timber Prices:

• An Examination of the Relationships Between Hardwood Lumber and Stumpage Prices in Ohio
• Optimal Timber Rotations with Evolving Prices and Costs Revisited
• Timber Price Dynamics Following a Natural Catastrophe
• When to Cut a Stand of Trees?

Online Presentations:

• Timber Mill Locations Across the Eastern U.S.
• Market Definition for Hardwood Timber in the Southern Appalachians

 

*Rosen, Barry N., and H. Fred Kaiser. 2000. Twenty years of price reporting to NIPF owners. Journal of Forestry, V. 101, No. 1, p. 47-51.
Barry Rosen and Fred Kaiser surveyed state forestry agencies to determine the availability of stumpage price information to nonindustrial private forestland owners, and compared the results from this survey to those from surveys in 1980 and 1990. Slightly fewer states issue reports now than in earlier decades although private reports are now available for several additional states. The most pressing need in the information delivery system is to get price information to the millions of forest landowners in the country. The Internet is becoming the way to do this.