Selling Timber in Missoula County, MT
Quick answer
There are 7 timber businesses listed for Missoula County, Montana: 7 timber buyers, loggers and mills. 5 of them have offices in the county. The rest are registered to work here and travel in, and every listing shows how far its office is from the county seat.
Timber prices for Missoula County
No county publishes its own timber prices. These are Montana's published stumpage prices, what landowners are paid for standing timber, and the best public guide to what timber in Missoula County is bringing. Your own timber can sell above or below them.
| Sawlogs, winning bids on state timber sales | $4.11–$49.59 per ton |
| Sawlogs, appraised minimum bid | $4–$16.72 per ton |
Source: Montana DNRC timber sale bid results, FY2027 sales. All Montana timber prices
Before you talk to anyone, find out what your timber is worth
Most landowners in Missoula County have no idea what their standing timber is worth, which is exactly the position a buyer wants you in. Four questions gets you a ballpark range before the first offer lands.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills in Missoula County (5)
These 5 are based in Missoula County. Being close matters: hauling is one of the biggest costs taken out of your check.
Bull Creek Forestry Inc is a logging contractor in Seeley Lake, Montana. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Custom saw milling and Slabs is a mill in Missoula, Montana. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Pyramid Mountain Lumber Inc. is a mill in Seeley Lake, Montana. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Roundwood West Corporation is a sawmill in Seeley Lake, Montana, out on Old Sawmill Road. It's a family business, started back in 1974 as Nine Mile Posts and Rails west of Missoula, and moved to Seeley Lake in 1989. It's still family run. This isn't a place that buys standing timber off your land. They take small diameter Lodgepole Pine and turn it into roundwood products: doweled rails, furniture-quality roundwood, preserved fence posts and rails, and some unpeeled wood. Many of the doweled rails get split into a symmetrical half rail. They also run an Air Curtain Burner under a conditional burn permit and offer a retrieval bin service for slash, if you've got debris to deal with. They call themselves "competitively priced, quality doweled roundwood." They're set up in Missoula County and that's the area they serve. No acreage minimum is given, since this isn't a logging or land-clearing operation in the usual sense, it's a mill that works with small diameter timber brought to them. This one suits a landowner who already has Lodgepole Pine cut or available and wants it turned into fence rails, posts, or roundwood, or who needs slash cleared and burned, rather than someone looking for a crew to come harvest standing timber off the property. From roundwoodwest.wixsite.com, read 4 October 2026.
WHOLESALE ONLY - Tripp Lumber Company Inc is a mill in Missoula, Montana. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills Nearby (2)
Businesses that buy, cut or mill timber in Missoula County, working from a nearby town.
Russ Reed Logging Inc is a logging contractor in Florence, Montana. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Westslope Forest Management is a logging contractor in Frenchtown, Montana. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.
Questions landowners ask
How many timber buyers and foresters serve Missoula County?
7 businesses are listed for Missoula County: 0 consulting foresters and 7 buyers, loggers and mills. 5 of them have offices in the county.
How much is my timber worth in Missoula County?
Nobody can tell you what your timber is worth without walking it. Value depends on the species, the size and grade of the trees, how thickly they stand, the ground conditions and how easily a logger can reach them. Anyone who quotes you a figure without seeing the land is guessing, and a guess in that direction is rarely in your favour.
What stumpage value means →Do I need a forestry consultant to sell timber in Missoula County?
You do not have to use one. A consulting forester works for you rather than the buyer, marks the timber, runs a sealed-bid sale and typically charges a percentage of the sale. Research from several state extension services has found that timber sold through a consultant often returns enough more to cover the fee, though results vary by tract and by market. The decision usually turns on the size of the sale and whether you have sold timber before.
Do I need a forestry consultant? →What is timber worth in Missoula County?
No price series is published for Missoula County on its own. Montana's latest published stumpage figures (Montana DNRC timber sale bid results, FY2027 sales) put sawlogs, winning bids on state timber sales at $4.11–$49.59 per ton. What your own timber brings depends on the species, the size and amount of it, and how far it is from a mill. A timber cruise by a forester settles it.
Forester listings for Missoula County come from the county register, revised 2026-11-04. The register is updated quarterly.