EXTENSION FORESTRY: STUMPAGE PRICES

SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND STUMPAGE PRICE SURVEY RESULTS

FOURTH QUARTER -- 2001

The table below summarizes reported prices paid for standing timber during the fourth quarter of 2001 (October - December). Prices for sawtimber are in $ per thousand board feet feet (International ¼-inch scale). Pulpwood and fuelwood are reported in $ per cord, biomass in $ per ton. The Range shows the high and low prices reported. Half of the prices reported are below the Median; half are above.

Click on highlighted prices for a price trend graph.

SPECIES	EAST OF CT RIVER			WEST OF CT RIVER
	no. of reports	median	range	no. of reports	median	range
red oak	45	300	10 - 425	28	400	200 - 680
white oak	35	90	45 - 180	11	125	50 - 200
other oaks	26	150	50 - 250	9	237	50 - 300
ash	18	80	30 - 120	24	100	20 - 260
cherry	10	250	100 - 400	18	290	50 - 800
sugar maple	21	220	100 - 425	22	275	150 - 650
red maple	31	40	10 - 100	21	50	25 -175
tulip poplar	2	55	50 - 60	7	100	25 -100
yellow birch	12	50	50 - 150	18	83	40 - 175
black birch	23	50	10 - 200	20	80	40 - 200
paper birch	5	40	30 - 50	10	30	10 - 150
beech	4	30	20 - 100	10	18	5 - 125
pallet hdwd	20	28	25 - 150	9	25	5 - 50
other hdwd	6	50	30 - 200	4	25	20 - 40
white pine	51	90	20 - 171	27	60	20 - 180
red pine	11	30	30 - 160	7	20	15 - 150
hemlock	26	30	2 - 100	20	28	10 - 140
spruce	6	40	40 - 40	4	90	50 - 200
other sfwd	2	23	20 - 25	0	---	---
poles, hdwd ($/lin ft)	0	---	---	0	---	---
poles, sfwd ($/lin ft)	0	---	---	0	---	---
fuelwood ($/cd)	34	6	3 - 20	8	5	3 - 15
pulpwood ($/cd)	4	1	1 - 1	1	5	---
biomass ($/ton)	2	15	15 - 15	0	---	---

This information is meant to be used as a guide only. Use with care. Prices paid for standing timber can be influenced by many factors, including but not limited to: timber quality, distance to market, accessibility of the property, sale volume, market demand, season, skid distance, landowner requirements, and logging costs.

Reporting is voluntary, and this is not a complete record of sale activity in the southern New England region. A total of 125 timber sales was reported for the fourth quarter of 2001.

Sale characteristics (in percent):

Size	%	Type	%	Reported by	%	Buyer/seller	%
< 50 Mbf	34	Lump-sum	69	Consulting foresters	19	Buyer	62
51-100 Mbf	17	Mill-tally	26	Public lands foresters	13	Seller	34
> 100 Mbf	35	No Data	5	Industrial foresters	11	No data	4
No data	14			Loggers	33
				Sawmills	16
				Utility foresters	2
				No data	6

This survey is a result of joint efforts of Cooperative Extension and the state forestry agencies in CT and MA.