"Wheres the wood?"

[dave1949]

I was curious as to how stumpage values in the Northeast compared to the Southeast and stumbled on Annual Reports: Publications: Maine Forest Service: Maine ACF.

I wish we had something similar for NC -- that sort of info is not publicly available here.

Steve

There is quite a bit of forest data for Maine. A lot of it comes from landowners who file a required harvest notification and annual totals (if multiple harvests).

I am a member of Small Woodland Owners of Maine (SWOAM). The newsletter often has data about stand metrics for the various forest types around the state. Percentage of stand by species and dbh size type of info, harvest volumes history.

 

[Jstpssng]

I was curious as to how stumpage values in the Northeast compared to the Southeast and stumbled on Annual Reports: Publications: Maine Forest Service: Maine ACF.

I wish we had something similar for NC -- that sort of info is not publicly available here.

Steve

There are several links for your state here
Price Report | Extension Forestry

They include historical stumpage and mill delivered prices, as well as links to two sites wuich give quaterly reports for the same.

 

[Jstpssng]

I was curious as to how stumpage values in the Northeast compared to the Southeast and stumbled on Annual Reports: Publications: Maine Forest Service: Maine ACF.

I wish we had something similar for NC -- that sort of info is not publicly available here.

Steve

There are several links for your state here
Price Report | Extension Forestry

They include historical stumpage and mill delivered prices, as well as links to two sites wuich give quaterly reports for the same.

 

[Dr_Zinj]

If prices go up and wood is scarce, be on the look out for tree rustlers. I seem to recall one fellow on the boards a year or so ago who had some nasty good for nothing come in and steal all his cut and stacked firewood he had for heating.

 

[smstonypoint]

There are several links for your state here
Price Report | Extension Forestry

They include historical stumpage and mill delivered prices, as well as links to two sites wuich give quaterly reports for the same.

I was referring to the county price data for Maine. The reporting regions for NC are large.

Steve

 

[Larry Caldwell]

According to The Wilderness Society (headquartered in Washington DC), all trees on the East Coast were logged in the 18th century and there are no trees left to make firewood out of. I hear there is still plenty of coal, though.

 

[dave1949]

According to The Wilderness Society (headquartered in Washington DC), all trees on the East Coast were logged in the 18th century and there are no trees left to make firewood out of. I hear there is still plenty of coal, though.

Oh quit it. :laughing: Besides, your reference is off by a century and your coal geography is suspect too.

 

[ultrarunner]

Amazing and illustrates the power of regulation...

I'm in the SF Bay Area and folks have to pay to have Oak hauled away... I have a splitter and last year we lost several heritage oaks in a windstorm... wood is cut, split and seasoned over a year and no body wants it... even free.

The media keeps running stories and billboards and schools preach the evils of wood burning with numbers to anonymously report chimney smoke.

I've got another large Oak that toppled right over my dirt access road... just drive up with a pickup and start cutting... looks like it will be just pushed to the side with my tractor...

Picked up a nice Lopi Insert Sunday... the new owners priority was to get that dinosaur out of their home and convert to gas... they even get a credit to do so...