Timber Sale Archive
Timber Sale Results
A working record of closed sealed-bid sales represented by Southeast Forestlands across Mississippi and Alabama. Each entry summarizes what the tract was, who bid, what sold, and what the landowner walked away with — the kind of detail you can't get from a brochure.
Kemper County, MS — 180 acres (2026)
7 bidders- Products sold
- Pine sawtimber, chip-n-saw, and pulpwood; minor hardwood pulpwood
- Landowner objective
- Second thinning on a well-stocked loblolly plantation; landowner wanted maximum competition with a clean residual stand.
- Sale highlight
- Sealed-bid sale generated a meaningful spread between high and low bid versus a single verbal offer the landowner had received earlier. Award went to a regional buyer with crews positioned for selective thinning.
- Lessons learned
- The first offer is rarely the highest. Exposing a well-managed pine tract to every qualified buyer in the shed reliably outperforms a single negotiated number.
Clarke County, MS — 240 acres (2026)
6 bidders- Products sold
- Mature pine sawtimber and pulpwood; hardwood pulpwood on SMZ edges
- Landowner objective
- Final harvest on a mature loblolly stand with site prep and replant to follow; landowner wanted a clean operation that protected streamside management zones.
- Sale highlight
- Pay-as-cut structure with scale-ticket audit rights captured heavier-than-expected sawtimber volume and held the buyer accountable on BMPs through close-out.
- Lessons learned
- When stocking is uncertain and the landowner wants oversight, pay-as-cut keeps the upside with the landowner and keeps the operation honest.
- Products sold
- Mixed pine and hardwood pulpwood; limited pine chip-n-saw
- Landowner objective
- First thinning on a 16-year-old plantation; absentee landowner wanted a thinning that left a healthy residual stand for a future second thin and final harvest.
- Sale highlight
- Marked-row thinning prescription with strict residual basal-area target. Sale closed in under 60 days from cruise to active deck.
- Lessons learned
- First thinnings are about the stand you keep, not the volume you cut. A tight prescription pays back for the next 15 years.
Jasper County, MS — 320 acres (2026)
8 bidders- Products sold
- Pine sawtimber, chip-n-saw, pulpwood; hardwood sawtimber on bottoms
- Landowner objective
- Estate-driven final harvest with stepped-up basis already documented; family wanted competitive marketing and a defensible paper trail.
- Sale highlight
- Sealed-bid sale drew bids from both regional and out-of-shed buyers. Strong hardwood bottom contribution materially lifted total value above the pine-only expectation.
- Lessons learned
- Tracts with a real hardwood component get undervalued by buyers who only run pine. Competitive bidding surfaces the buyer who actually wants the whole stand.
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