The Timber Market
Northwest Management, Inc., specializes in intensive merchandising and marketing of forest products to capture optimum value. NMI publishes this quarterly Log Market Report that summarizes log prices from a large geographic area in the Northwest.
Our Services
- Log Marketing Merchandising & Marketing of Forest Products
- Price Negotiation
- Analysis of Price Proposals
- Quarterly Log Market Report / Market Overview
Stay on Top of the Market
Northwest Management, Inc. markets their client’s forest products to mills through a competitive bidding process in order to maximize the return a landowner can expect from every sale. We at NMI take pride in our ability to provide these and other exceptional services for all our clients and landowners.
4th Quarter 2022 Log Market Report
The 4th Qtr. 2022 Inland NW log market remains remarkably stable with most mills in the region continuing to offer above average delivered log prices. Inland log prices were buoyed this quarter by the Weyerhaeuser mill worker strike that was recently resolved. Differing log price trajectories at local mills are mostly attributed to their comfortability with log inventory levels going into winter. The Random Lengths Framing Lumber Composite Price is currently near $475, around $100 less than one year ago. By and large, recent economic indicators paint a pessimistic picture for near to medium-term lumber consumption outlook. Doug-fir/larch and grand fir/hemlock continue to be in relatively high demand while ponderosa pine and whitewoods have recently softened in the Inland log/lumber markets. Pulp log prices remain strong carrying over the trend from last quarter.
