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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.
The sale pages
Every completed auction gets its own page, found by sale name: the tract, its agency and region, the offered volume, the minimum bid, the winning bid and price, the premium over minimum, the bidder count and the high bidder. A no-bid sale is labeled as such, never shown as a zero price.
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.
The county and species pages
County pages gather every tracked sale in a county, state and federal, with its volume and result. Species pages gather the sales that offer a given species, like Douglas-fir or ponderosa pine, 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 own sale 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 spells out exactly how each sale is read out of the public record and checked before it is published.