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Where wood is moving right now

Every marker below is a county with at least one timber tract taking sealed bids on this board today. Not a tract that sold last quarter, and not a price report - wood that is open right now, with a deadline still ahead of it.

A procurement forester cannot readily find out what is being bid on ground inside his own basket. This map is the part of that we can answer honestly: how many tracts are open in a county, and how many acres they add up to.

Counties with wood open

No timber harvest tract is taking bids on the board this minute. That is a quiet week, not a broken map - tracts post and close continuously, so it is worth another look.

No timber harvest tract is taking bids on the board this minute. That is a quiet week, not a broken map - tracts post and close continuously, so it is worth another look.

The pin is a county, not a tract

The board records which county a tract is in. It does not record where in the county. So every marker sits at the middle of the county, and a tract on the map could be forty miles from the dot in any direction.

We could have run the landowner's written directions through a geocoder and produced a confident-looking pin. "The old Pritchett place, off County Road 19" does not geocode, and a wrong pin that looks exact is worse than an honest circle. The fix is the landowner dropping a pin himself when he posts the tract, and that is the next piece of work on this map.

What a seat shows you

Signed out, this map is counts and counties. Nothing on it identifies a tract or its owner, because none of that is in the page at all - the server does not send it.

An account that can bid on timber harvest work reads the same map with the tracts underneath it: the site address the landowner wrote, his access notes, and his phone number. That is not a new release. It is exactly what the request's own page already gives that account, drawn on a map instead of listed.

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