Selling Timber in Butte County, SD
Quick answer
There is 1 timber business listed for Butte County, South Dakota: 1 timber buyer, logger or mill. None of them has an office in the county. That is normal and it is worth knowing: consulting foresters register with the state county by county, and many register for counties they would have to drive hours to reach.
Timber prices for Butte County
No county publishes its own timber prices. These are South Dakota's published stumpage prices, what landowners are paid for standing timber, and the best public guide to what timber in Butte County is bringing. Your own timber can sell above or below them. South Dakota publishes no stumpage price report, so these are the rates bidders pay for standing ponderosa pine on Black Hills National Forest sales — the same market a Black Hills landowner sells into.
| Ponderosa pine sawtimber | $21.61–$23.49 per hundred cubic feet |
| Non-saw roundwood | $0.35–$0.91 per hundred cubic feet |
| Miscellaneous convertible products | $1 per hundred cubic feet |
Source: USDA Forest Service, Black Hills National Forest, 2025–2026. All South Dakota timber prices
Before you talk to anyone, find out what your timber is worth
Most landowners in Butte 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 That Work Here (1)
Businesses that buy, cut or mill timber in Butte County, working from a nearby town.
Hill's Product Group is a sawmill and lumber business based in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, with its main plant and offices in Whitewood. It manufactures and distributes "quality wood products, treated lumber, rough lumber, pattern stock, pine & spruce boards, and much more." The species it works in are Ponderosa Pine and Engelmann Spruce, and it describes itself as one of the area's largest suppliers of rough sawn lumber and timbers. Its product line runs from treated lumber and fencing to pole barn timbers, laminated columns, foundation lumber and plywood, utility poles, bridge lumber, and livestock bedding made from pine shavings. The Whitewood site has a computer managed wood preservation plant using Koppers treatments, and the Belle Fourche site handles remanufacturing, molding, and distribution. It has weekly route trucks covering South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Northern Colorado, and Western Nebraska, and it has operated since 1985. This is a mill and distribution company that turns timber into finished wood products and ships them across a six-state area, not a business that buys standing timber off a landowner's acreage or walks a woodlot with them. A landowner is better served looking elsewhere for someone to mark trees, cruise a tract, or handle a stumpage sale. This listing fits someone looking for where Ponderosa Pine and Engelmann Spruce end up, not someone trying to sell it standing. From hillspg.com, read 10 October 2026.
Questions landowners ask
How many timber buyers and foresters serve Butte County?
1 business is listed for Butte County: 0 consulting foresters and 1 buyer, logger or mill. None of them has an office in the county; they register to work here and travel in.
How much is my timber worth in Butte 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 Butte 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 Butte County?
No price series is published for Butte County on its own. South Dakota's latest published stumpage figures (USDA Forest Service, Black Hills National Forest, 2025–2026) put ponderosa pine sawtimber at $21.61–$23.49 per hundred cubic feet. 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 Butte County come from the county register, revised 2026-11-04. The register is updated quarterly.