Monthly results
December 2023 timber sale results
5 completed public timber sales in December 2023 across Washington DNR, the Oregon Department of Forestry, the Montana DNRC, the US Forest Service and BLM
Data through Dec 2023 · source last checked Aug 26, 2026 · page revised Aug 18, 2026
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- Volume-weighted average, $/MBF
About this data
- Source
- Washington DNR, Oregon Department of Forestry, Idaho Department of Lands, Montana DNRC, US Forest Service Region 6 and BLM Western Oregon timber auctions
- Series
- Completed public timber sales for one calendar month, all agencies
- Basis
- Stumpage; $/MBF (state), $/CCF (federal) and $/ton (Idaho/Montana) kept separate
- Geography
- The Pacific Northwest
- Unit
- $/MBF
- Calculation
- December 2023, with the monthly price history up to it
- Last observation
- Dec 2023
- Update frequency
- Monthly, updated as late results post
December 2023: 5 completed public timber sales (5 sold, 0 no-bid). 14,142 MBF of state timber and 415 CCF of federal timber offered, a volume-weighted $716/MBF across state sawtimber sales.
December 2023 brought five sales to completion across Oregon DNR and the US Forest Service with no no-bids. Clear Connection in Forest Grove bid hard at $886/MBF while Humptys Wall in Astoria drew softer bidding at $504/MBF, leaving state sawtimber at a volume-weighted $716/MBF average. The federal Nugget salvage sale at Okanogan-Wenatchee sold $0.27/CCF with an 8 percent premium.
| Sale | Agency | Class | Region / forest | Volume | Result | Premium | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nugget Timber Sale | USFS | Salvage/deck/product | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | 415 CCF | $0.27/CCF | +8% | Dec 20, 2023 |
| Clear Connection | ODF | Sawtimber | Forest Grove | 5,872 MBF | $886/MBF | n/a | Dec 15, 2023 |
| Son In Law | ODF | Sawtimber | Western Lane | 2,068 MBF | $706/MBF | n/a | Dec 14, 2023 |
| Humptys Wall | ODF | Sawtimber | Astoria | 3,415 MBF | $504/MBF | n/a | Dec 12, 2023 |
| Cathill GNA | ODF | Sawtimber | Southwest Oregon | 2,787 MBF | $626/MBF | n/a | Dec 11, 2023 |
| Sale | Agency | Volume | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Largest volume | Clear Connection | ODF | 5,872 MBF | $886/MBF |
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December saw five timber sales to completion: four Oregon Department of Forestry state sawtimber sales totaling 14,142 MBF, and one US Forest Service federal salvage tract of 415 CCF. State prices ranged from $504 per MBF for Humptys Wall in Astoria to $886 per MBF for Clear Connection in Forest Grove, with a volume-weighted average of $716 per MBF. All five sold without a no-bid. The federal Nugget Timber Sale on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest sold for $0.27 per CCF, an 8 percent premium over minimum.
About December 2023 timber sale results
This page is the permanent record of the public timber sales that were auctioned in December 2023: every completed state and federal sale that month, sold or no-bid, with its class, offered volume, winning price and premium over the appraised minimum. Green sawtimber is the market read; salvage, deck, stewardship and product sales price on token minimums and are labeled as their own class, not blended into the sawtimber figures. State volumes are in MBF and federal volumes in CCF, and the two are never summed. The page updates in place as late results for the month post; it does not forecast prices or advise what to bid. The chart is the volume-weighted green sawtimber price month by month, in dollars per MBF, the unit the sales in December 2023 were scaled in. It runs from the start of this archive through December 2023 and stops there, so the line shows what a buyer reading this month could already see. A month that closed no comparable sawtimber sale in that unit is left as a gap rather than plotted as a zero, and the three units are charted apart, never averaged together.