Montana · Timber prices
Timber pricesin Montana
Montana DNRC publishes public-record results.
No page anywhere can tell you what your own stand is worth. What this one does is put the Montana report in front of you, then show you the mills close enough to your gate to bid on it.
The source
Who publishes Montana's prices
Montana DNRC publishes bid results from state timber auctions. New editions appear when sales close, not on a schedule.
What that publisher puts out is public record — completed sales and the prices they actually fetched, or a survey the agency runs itself. A result from a closed sale is a fact about something that happened, not a licensed average, so figures from it can be shown here with the sale and the edition date attached.
Read them as history rather than as a quote. A sale on state ground, sold by competitive bid on a specified volume, is not the same transaction as a private tract sold to one logger, and the price will not be the same either.
Public record
What Montana sales actually fetched
No Montana sale figures have been read into this directory yet.
Montana DNRC publishes the results, and they are public record — nothing stops them appearing here. What has not happened yet is a person opening the current edition and copying rows across, which is the only way this table ever fills: there is no feed, no API, and nothing on this site fetches that publisher at build time or when you load the page.
An empty table with a guessed row in it would be worse than this paragraph. Until a real figure is read off a real edition, the link below is the whole answer.
Open Montana DNRC's results →The honest answer
There is no Montana price for timber
A standing tree cannot be shipped to the highest bidder. It has to be cut, dragged to a landing, loaded and hauled to a gate that will take it, and the freight comes out of the same load the timber does. Two identical stands fifty miles apart are worth different money, and no state figure can close that gap.
99 wood processors are listed in Montana across 26 counties. Which of them sit within working distance of your gate is what decides who bids on your tract and what they can afford to pay for it.
Species and grade split it again. Pine sawtimber, chip-n-saw, pulpwood and veneer-grade hardwood move on separate markets, and a stand is usually worth sorting into products rather than selling as one lot. The site's market board sets out why there is no world price for a load of logs, and the timber value chain shows where each layer of the money goes between the stump and the mill gate.
If what you are weighing is the sale itself — the standing timber, the ground under it, or both together — how selling timberland actually works walks through what drives what a buyer will pay, what a timber cruise is and who should run it for you, and why land is worth what somebody will actually pay for it and no more.
Got timber to move in Montana?
A report says what the neighbourhood has been doing. It does not say what your tract will bring. Put it out for sealed bids and let the buyers around your county answer that themselves.