Wyoming timber prices
What your standing timber is worth in Wyoming — published stumpage values by species, and a free calculator that turns them into a figure for your own land.
Quick answer
These are stumpage prices for Wyoming — what a landowner is paid for timber standing on the stump, before it is cut. The most recent published figure for ponderosa pine and other conifer sawtimber is $23.49 per hundred cubic feet, reported by USDA Forest Service Black Hills NF and BLM Wyoming for 2025–2026. Delivered or mill log prices are a different and much higher number, because they include the cost of cutting and hauling the wood. TimberClear lists 26 Wyoming foresters, buyers, loggers and mills who work this timber. What a particular stand brings is settled by a timber cruise, not by a price list.
If you own woodland in Wyoming and you are wondering what it is worth, the number you want is the stumpage price — what a buyer pays you for timber while it is still standing. The most recent published figure for ponderosa pine and other conifer sawtimber in Wyoming is $23.49 per hundred cubic feet, reported by USDA Forest Service Black Hills NF and BLM Wyoming for 2025–2026. The full table is below.
Two prices get quoted in this business and they are not the same. Stumpage is what reaches you. Delivered, sometimes called the mill or log price, is what a mill pays once the wood has been cut, limbed and hauled to the yard — and the difference between them is the cost of doing all that work. Delivered prices are easier to find online, they are a good deal higher, and a landowner who mistakes one for the other walks into a sale expecting money that was never on the table. Everything on this page is stumpage.
One thing to know before you read the table. Wyoming publishes no state price series, so these are the appraised standing-timber rates from actual 2025-26 federal sales in Wyoming.
Wyoming stumpage prices by species
USDA Forest Service Black Hills NF and BLM Wyoming, 2025–2026
| Timber | per hundred cubic feet |
|---|---|
| Ponderosa pine and other conifer sawtimber | $23.49 |
| Non-saw materialpulp | $0.35 |
| Timber | per thousand board feet |
|---|---|
| Lodgepole pine sawlog and pole material | $15 |
Source: USDA Forest Service Black Hills NF and BLM Wyoming, 2025–2026. These are stumpage prices — what a landowner is paid for standing timber.
What is an acre of timber worth in Wyoming?
At these prices, one mature, normally stocked acre of mostly large trees, sold in one harvest, works out to roughly $100 to $200 for pine and other softwood. Smaller trees, a thinner stand or a partial cut bring less. It's a ballpark, not an appraisal.
What is your timber worth?
The table above is the price. The calculator turns it into a figure for your land — it asks your acreage, your species, how big the trees are and how thick they stand, then works the estimate from the prices above. About a minute, and no email needed to see it.
What are my trees worth in Wyoming?
A price list cannot answer that on its own, and any site that tells you otherwise is guessing. Three things decide what an acre brings, and only you can see them: how big the trees are, how thickly they are growing, and what species they are.
Size matters more than anything else on that list. In Wyoming the best sawtimber on this page tops out at $23.49 while pulpwood tops out at $0.35 — the same tree, grown on, is worth several times more. That is the whole argument for knowing what you have before anybody makes you an offer.
Our free timber value calculator asks those three questions and works an estimate from Wyoming's own published prices, the ones in the table on this page. It gives you a range rather than a single figure, because a range is the honest shape of the answer. It takes about a minute and it does not ask for your email to show you the number.
How Wyoming timber is measured
Wyoming uses more than one unit, which trips people up. Sawtimber is priced by the hundred cubic feet, written CCF, and other products are priced by the thousand board feet, written MBF. Never compare a figure in one unit against a figure in another — they are not the same measurement of wood.
Is a timber sale realistic in Wyoming?
Wyoming has very little commercial timber, and much of what sells is beetle-kill salvage priced near the appraisal floor.
None of that means your trees are worthless. It means the sale is found rather than looked up — you want somebody who already works your area and knows where the wood goes. Tell us about your tract and we will go looking, and we track where the requests come from so we know which state to build out next.
How much forest Wyoming has, and who owns it
Wyoming has 10.8 million acres of forest land. 1.3 million acres nonindustrial private, across 5,368 owners.
Wyoming's state-owned timber base is tiny — about 263,000 acres of forested state trust lands with roughly 137,000 available for commercial harvest, against 10.8 million acres of forest land statewide, so nearly all supply is federal or private.
Sources: apps.fs.usda.gov · wsfd.wyo.gov
Do I need a permit to cut timber in Wyoming?
No state permit or notification requirement for harvesting timber on private land was identified in Wyoming, and the state's forestry best management practices are described as voluntary.
Permits are required to remove forest products from state trust lands, which is a different thing from cutting on your own ground.
To be straight with you about how we know that: we looked and found no statewide requirement, which is not quite the same as confirming there is none. County ordinances and local road rules exist that no search of state law turns up. One call to the Wyoming State Forestry Division settles it before you cut.
Source: wsfd.wyo.gov
Agricultural land classification: what Wyoming charges to hold woodland
Land used for production of timber products can be classified and valued as agricultural land, provided the owner earns at least $500 a year from marketing agricultural products.
Two things to check before you apply: it takes 35 acres for a parcel inside a platted subdivision. Programmes like this usually carry a claw-back — take the land out of forest use early and the state wants the deferred tax back — so read the terms before you sign rather than after you have cut.
Source: bighorncountywy.gov
What the Wyoming State Forestry Division will do for you, free
Free Forest Stewardship help — technical assistance to nonindustrial private forest owners and development of comprehensive management plans, plus advice on insect and disease identification, timber management and wildlife habitat, through district foresters.
Worth taking. A state service forester does not bid on your timber and does not take a commission, so the advice comes without a stake in the outcome. They will not run your sale for you — that is a consulting forester's job — but they will tell you what you have before anybody makes you an offer.
Source: wsfd.wyo.gov
Getting the best price for your timber
In a market this thin the first job is not squeezing the price, it is finding somebody who will come and cut at all. Haul distance decides most of it: wood that has to travel a long way to a mill loses its value on the truck, so an operator already working near you is worth more than a better price quoted from three counties over.
Before any of that, have the timber cruised. A cruise is a forester walking your land and measuring what is actually standing, so you are selling a known quantity instead of taking somebody's word for it.
Ask how the wood will be measured and how you will be able to check it. Whatever the unit, a sale you cannot verify afterwards is a sale you are taking on trust.
And put the terms in writing before anybody starts: what gets cut, what stays, what the land looks like when they leave, and when you get paid.
TimberClear lists 26 Wyoming foresters, buyers, loggers and mills. Every listing is free and complete, including the phone number the business already publishes. We have not vetted, verified or endorsed any of them — the listing tells you who they are and what counties they cover, and the choosing is yours.
26 Wyoming timber businesses
Foresters, buyers, loggers and mills, with the counties each one covers. Free and complete.
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Timber price questions in Wyoming
What are timber prices in Wyoming right now?
USDA Forest Service Black Hills NF and BLM Wyoming reports ponderosa pine and other conifer sawtimber at $23.49 per hundred cubic feet for 2025–2026. That is a stumpage price — what the landowner receives for standing timber. Prices for the other products in Wyoming are listed on this page, and they move every quarter.
What is stumpage value?
Stumpage is the price paid for timber while it is still standing — the money that reaches the landowner. It is not the same as a delivered or mill log price, which is what a mill pays once the wood has been cut, limbed and hauled to the yard. The gap between the two is the cost of doing that work, and it is large. A delivered price quoted as though it were stumpage will make timber look worth far more than it is.
How much is an acre of timber worth in Wyoming?
It depends on three things the price list cannot tell you: how big the trees are, how thickly they are growing, and whether they are sawtimber or pulpwood size. Sawtimber is worth several times what pulpwood is worth per ton. TimberClear's free timber value calculator asks those questions and works the estimate from Wyoming's own published prices. It gives a range, never a single figure, because only a cruise settles what a stand is really worth.
Does Wyoming publish its own timber prices?
Wyoming publishes no state price series, so these are the appraised standing-timber rates from actual 2025-26 federal sales in Wyoming.
Do I need a permit to cut timber in Wyoming?
No state permit or notification requirement for harvesting timber on private land was identified in Wyoming, and the state's forestry best management practices are described as voluntary. Permits are required to remove forest products from state trust lands, which is a different thing from cutting on your own ground. We found no statewide requirement, which is not the same as confirming there is none — county ordinances exist that a search of state law does not turn up, so check locally before you cut.
Is there a property tax break for timberland in Wyoming?
Wyoming runs Agricultural land classification. Land used for production of timber products can be classified and valued as agricultural land, provided the owner earns at least $500 a year from marketing agricultural products. It takes 35 acres for a parcel inside a platted subdivision.
Who can help me manage my timber in Wyoming for free?
The Wyoming State Forestry Division. Free Forest Stewardship help — technical assistance to nonindustrial private forest owners and development of comprehensive management plans, plus advice on insect and disease identification, timber management and wildlife habitat, through district foresters.
How do I get the best price for my timber in Wyoming?
Get more than one offer. A sealed-bid sale run by a consulting forester puts buyers in competition with each other, and that is the single biggest lever a landowner has. Have the timber cruised first so you know what you are selling, and put the terms in writing before anybody starts cutting. TimberClear lists 26 Wyoming businesses, free and complete, and has not vetted or endorsed any of them.