The Michigan stumpage price record
Stumpage puts Michigan stumpage prices, timber sales and bids into one searchable record, with a receipt behind every figure.
Pick a state timber sale and follow it: to its prospectus, every bid and bidder, the buyer’s history, earlier offerings of the same sale, its boundary on the map and the stumpage prices for its region. Stumpage has already joined the records, so every thread is one click away.
Product
Six of the answers waiting inside. Figures are blurred here; subscribers see every one.
Today
The latest stumpage prices for every species, ranked within sawtimber and pulpwood, with the change from a year earlier one click away.
Species
Price history for each species, statewide and by region, with the full range of reported prices around the average. A gap stays a gap.
Sale history
Bidders, outcomes and premiums over the minimum bid for state timber sales since 2004, by year, office and species.
Sale map
Sale boundaries over topographic maps, with management units, roads, and the mills and log yards nearby.
Buyer Analysis
Every bidder’s participation, wins and award values, year by year, with the mills and log yards they are tied to.
Prospectus reader
Upcoming sales with the prospectus read for you: species and volumes, acreage, bid location and sale conditions.
Set expectations with a price history you can cite, and show clients the evidence behind your number.
See what is coming up for bid, what comparable sales brought and who you were bidding against.
Most landowners sell timber once or twice in a lifetime. The buyer across the table does it every week. Stumpage gives you the same view of the market.
Need a figure that holds up? Every number in Stumpage comes with a receipt you can cite.
In their words
Brandon’s website provides a fresh new look at MDNR stumpage data in Michigan. It allows the user to drill deeper into the details in a user-friendly manner that was not previously available. If you have questions about the evaluation of 20 million acres of Michigan forestland, then you need this tool.
How it works
Every figure can be traced to its source, and every rule is applied the same way, every time.
Subscribers get the full method notes behind every chart.
Pro · Coming soon
Most private timber sales leave no trace. Foresters and timber buyers are sending us the results of sales they handled, and Pro will show them by region and quarter, with the number of sales behind every figure. We’re assembling that record now; Pro opens when it’s ready.
Contribute your salesContributors earn credit toward Pro.
Pricing
Billed once a year. Cancel future renewal any time from your account.
$500 a year
The full state timber record.
$1,500 a year
Everything in Basic, plus the private market.
We’re assembling the private sale record now. Pro opens when it’s ready.
Handle private timber sales? Contributors earn credit toward Pro.
It holds stumpage prices for state forest land in the Upper Peninsula and the northern Lower Peninsula, back to 1994. State timber sales and bids across Michigan, back to 2004. And, with Pro when it opens, contributed private sales, reported in three regions: the Upper Peninsula, the Northern Lower Peninsula and Southern Michigan.
New prices and sale results are added as they are released. The latest stumpage price period on file ends Jun 30, 2026.
From foresters and timber buyers who send us the results of private sales they handled. Each result is published by region and quarter, with its sale count. Names, counties and exact dates are not published. A regional result can still sometimes be recognized, so anonymity cannot be guaranteed.
No. Stumpage shows what the market has paid. It does not appraise timber, and it never advises anyone to buy, sell or wait.
Plans are billed once a year. An online subscription renews each year until you cancel future renewal, which you can do any time from your account. You keep access through the year you paid for.
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