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How to read this
Every page is built the same way, so once you read one you can read all of them.
The board
Start here. The board is every recent public timber-sale result, ranked by the premium the winning bid ran over its appraised minimum, with the same results also listed newest first. The premium and the bidder count are the competitive-heat signals no single agency publishes together. A high premium means buyers competed; a no-bid sale means none did. Below the rankings are the sales that drew no bid, completed sales month by month, and the most active buyers.
The region and forest pages
Each state region, national forest and BLM district that has sold sales gets a page with its monthly average price and its bid intensity. State regions are priced in dollars per MBF; national forests in dollars per CCF. We never mix the two units in one average. Below the price figures, every completed sale in the region is listed, newest first: the date, county, offered volume, minimum bid, winning bid and price, the premium over minimum, the bidder count, the high bidder and a link to the agency's own notice or results. A no-bid sale is labeled as such, never shown as a zero price.
The county and species pages
The county page is one table, a row per county with a tracked sale, state and federal: completed sales, offered volume, the median sawtimber price where enough sales back one, the latest result and the next scheduled auction. The species page charts Douglas-fir and lists every other species a sale notice names, since species mix drives a tract's value more than volume alone. Species is only shown where a source publishes it.
The calendar
The calendar is the forward book: advertised sales that have been publicly noticed but not yet auctioned, soonest first, with the auction date, the offered volume and appraised minimum where the notice gives them, and the species where reported. After a sale is auctioned its result moves to its region page.
The units, kept apart
State timber is scaled in thousand board feet (MBF); federal Forest Service timber in hundred cubic feet (CCF). These are different measures, so a state price per MBF and a federal price per CCF are not the same thing, and the site labels every price with its unit and never blends them. If you need a rough bridge, one MBF is on the order of two to two and a fifth CCF, depending on species and log size, so a federal per-CCF rate runs roughly a bit under half the equivalent per-MBF number. Treat that as a back-of- envelope conversion only, not a precise one, since the scaling rules genuinely differ, which is exactly why the site keeps the two units apart on the board rather than converting between them.
What we do not say
We report what timber sold for and what is coming up. We do not tell anyone what to bid, which sale to chase, or what a tract is worth to them. That call is the reader's, made with their own costs in front of them. This is not bid, appraisal or investment advice.
New to the vocabulary? The glossary defines every term the board uses, and the methodology page lists the agency sources behind the board and how often each is checked.