MT DNRC's GNA Reid Divide and Ten IDL Sales Post to the Fall Board

Ten sales from IDL (Idaho Department of Lands), dated September 1 through September 30, are now on the fall board, covering cedar, salvage and GNA contracts. MT DNRC's GNA Reid Divide Salvage, which closed November 4, rounds out this week's eleven new additions. The 41-sale board since September 4 carries a 14 percent median premium over minimum on green sawtimber, with 133,782 MBF in state-measured volume sold.

Other notable results from the recent board:

• Klister VDT & VRH (WA DNR, South Puget Sound Region): cleared $183/MBF against a $64.83/MBF per-unit minimum, +182% over the per-unit minimum, 3 bidders. Total high bid $431,980 against a $153,000 minimum.
• GNA Pine-ing Away Timber (MT DNRC, Northwestern Land Office): cleared $18.03/ton against a $5.80/ton per-unit minimum, +211% over the per-unit minimum, 2 bidders. Total high bid $372,896 against a $119,931 minimum. Board's top premium.
• West Bead (WA DNR): 45,669 tons, $1,050,387 total high bid, the largest-volume result on the recent board.
• No bids: 6 sales drew no qualifying bid, including Country Boy, Soup Bones VDT VRH and Q Dead End, all WA DNR.

Upcoming auctions

59 sales are advertised on the forward calendar. Three Forest Service sales on the Wallowa-Whitman and Mount Hood open today (November 5), and the Colville's Sinlahekin Fire Salvage DxP is scheduled for November 6. The two with published volumes are IDL's North Diamond Cedar (Priest Lake, 4,005 MBF offered, Nov 10) and ODonnell Darn Salvage (St. Joe, 2,270 MBF offered, Nov 16). Volumes for the Forest Service offerings in the near-term calendar have not been published.