Forestry & Timber
Timber sales, stumpage, delivered-wood prices, logging capacity, forest management, access, procurement, and field operations.
A daily field note for the wood business
What is moving in the woods, at the mill, and around the market.
Woods Run Digest looks beyond the obvious headlines for developments that matter to people working in forestry and forest products: timber sales, delivered wood, mill capacity, procurement, financing, equipment, trucking, biomass, market signals, new publications, and the quieter changes that can matter later.
Latest edition
September 5, 2026
- Washington State raised the no-board-approval threshold for salvage sales from $250,000 to $2 million after record fire damage to state trust forests.
- After the Coosa Pines, Alabama pulp mill and associated chip facility stopped buying, pine pulpwood stumpage reportedly fell from about $7/ton to effectively zero within an 85-mile radius.
- Tahoe Forest Products secured $50 million in USDA-backed financing to expand Sierra Nevada sawmilling capacity tied to forest-restoration material.
- Madison’s Lumber Prices Index ended the week at $518/MBF, down about 1% from the prior week.
- Contractor opportunities include 2,520 green tons of biomass removal at French Meadows, California, and a Forest Service thinning/hand-piling job in eastern Oregon.
Coverage
The things most likely to change a decision.
Mills & Markets
Capacity changes, curtailments, expansions, product pricing, investment, acquisitions, financing, and demand signals.
Under the Radar
Useful developments hiding in local papers, agency notices, company releases, equipment channels, service firms, and niche industry sources.
Publications & Tools
New reports, market data, extension guidance, calculators, datasets, manuals, dashboards, research papers, and practical tools.
Published by
The Forest Business School
Woods Run Digest is produced as part of The Forest Business School's work with forestry and forest-products businesses. It favors specific, useful information over generic news aggregation.