<!-- canonical: https://stumpage.news/issues/2026-08-30 -->
<!-- Machine-readable Markdown for agents. Append .md to any page URL; index at https://stumpage.news/llms.txt -->

# Five WA DNR Sales Draw No Bid to Close August

_Aug 30, 2026_

> 15 WA DNR results posted Aug 25-27; five drew no bid. Ten sold, including Dracula, Barbed Wire and Birdie SWT. The summer board sits at a median +28% over minimum on 40 sold sales.

_Numbers as of Aug 30, 2026 pull._

Fifteen WA DNR results posted in this batch, and **five drew no bid**: Q Parody Peak and Raw Bin Hood (Aug 25), Bakers Dozen (Aug 26), Country Boy and Q Dead End (both Aug 27). Ten sold. Five of the six no-bids in the recent period are from this batch alone.


[Chart: Green sawtimber bidding heat (%)](https://stumpage.news/board/recent-results) ([data](https://stumpage.news/board/recent-results.md) — chart image: https://stumpage.news/charts/issues/timber/2026-08-30/board/recent-results.png)


- **Sold from the batch (WA DNR):** Dracula (Aug 25), Galactica (Aug 25), G Sabrinus SWT & VRH (Aug 25), Barbed Wire (Aug 26), East May VDT VRH (Aug 26), Explorer Ridge (Aug 26), Next Regeneration (Aug 26), Birdie SWT (Aug 26), Dungeness Direct (auctioned Aug 1) and Belty Sorts (Aug 27).
- **No bids:** Bakers Dozen, Country Boy, Q Parody Peak, Raw Bin Hood and Q Dead End, all WA DNR. Elk Mill (WA DNR), from an earlier posting, brings the period total to six.
- **Summer board:** 40 sold sales since June 27; green sawtimber at a median **+28% over minimum**; 91,621 MBF (state) of timber sold across the period.
- **Period's hardest-bid state sales (prior periods):** Dern Draw Blowdown Permit (MT DNRC, Northwestern Land Office) cleared **$37.77/ton** against a $12.00/ton per-unit minimum, +215% over the per-unit minimum on one bid (total high bid $67,986 against a $21,600 total minimum). Butcher Blowdown Timber Permit (MT DNRC, Northwestern Land Office) cleared **$34.86/ton** against a $12.00/ton per-unit minimum, +191% over the per-unit minimum on four bids (total high bid $83,838 against a $28,860 total minimum).
- **Biggest volume:** King (WA DNR) at 54,547 tons, total high bid $1,520,770.

## Upcoming auctions

45 sales are advertised and not yet auctioned. The soonest and largest by published volume:

- **Aug 31** Tiger Tail STWD IRTC (USFS, Olympic National Forest): volume not published
- **Sep 1** Bodie Adjacent (IDL, Pend Oreille Lake): **3,615 MBF** offered
- **Sep 8** BC (USFS, Willamette National Forest): volume not published
- **Sep 8** Two Canyons DxP Timber Sale (USFS, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest): volume not published; Douglas-fir, Ponderosa pine
- **Sep 9** Captain Kerk Timber Sale (USFS, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest): volume not published; Douglas-fir
- **Sep 9** Tempest Salvage Timber Sale (USFS, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest): volume not published; Douglas-fir
- **Sep 10** LR Decks (USFS, Willamette National Forest): volume not published
- **Sep 11** Scattered Boulder Salvage Ton (IDL, Payette Lakes): **6,962 tons** offered
- **Sep 14** Puma Playground Cedar (IDL, Maggie Creek): **4,435 MBF** offered
- **Sep 14** Space Beetle Cedar (IDL, Maggie Creek): **1,275 MBF** offered
- **Sep 14** Coyote GNA and Outback GNA (ODF, Southwest Oregon): volume not published

Separately, 31 sales advertised earlier this month held their auctions with no results posted yet.

---
Canonical URL: https://stumpage.news/issues/2026-08-30
