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Where wood is moving right now

Every marker below is a county with at least one tract taking sealed bids today - harvest work a landowner is hiring, timber he is selling on the stump, land he wants cleared, or all three. Not a tract that sold last quarter, and not a price report: work that is open right now, with a deadline still ahead of it.

A procurement forester cannot readily find out what is being bid on ground inside his own basket. This map is the part of that we can answer honestly: how many tracts are open in a county, and how many acres they add up to.

Counties with wood open

2 tracts are taking bids across 2 counties.

  • Natchitoches Parish, LA

    1 tract open

    20 acres

    Soonest deadline Sep 30, 2026

  • DeSoto County, MS

    1 tract open

    20 acres

    Soonest deadline Oct 15, 2026

Three boards on one map

A landowner posts one of three things. **Harvest work**: he is hiring somebody to cut, and logging crews bid the job. **Standing timber**: he is selling the wood on the stump, and mills, timber dealers, loggers and consulting foresters bid to buy it. **Land work**: clearing, grubbing, pads, roads, ponds and dirt work, and land clearing contractors, loggers and equipment operators bid it. All three sit on the same ground, often in the same county the same week, so they share this map.

They do not share a seat. A crew cannot bid the buying board and a mill cannot bid the harvest board - a mill owns no skidders, and letting him bid work he cannot perform would be a wrong answer nobody could act on. What a mill winning a tract does instead is create cutting work: he owns wood he cannot cut, so he posts the harvest himself and a crew bids that.

Land work is separate for a different reason: who is paying. A logging crew is paid out of the wood, so bidding harvest work costs him nothing. On a clearing job there is no wood and no mill - the landowner or the developer pays the contractor directly - so that board carries its own seat. A logger who cuts timber and clears ground holds both, and bids both.

The public marker is a county, not a tract

Every marker on this page sits at the middle of the county, and a tract could be forty miles from the dot in any direction. That is what the public map is, signed in or not: counties, counts and acres.

A landowner can now drop a pin on his own tract when he posts it, and that pin is exact. It goes out on the same terms as his address - to accounts that can bid on the tract, and to nobody else. A tract with no pin is drawn at the middle of the county, the way every tract was before, and that stays a perfectly normal way to post one.

Nothing here is geocoded. "The old Pritchett place, off County Road 19" does not geocode, and a wrong pin that looks exact is worse than an honest circle - so the only exact point on this map is one a landowner put on his own ground.

What a seat shows you

Signed out, this map is counts and counties. Nothing on it identifies a tract or its owner, because none of that is in the page at all - the server does not send it. A pinned tract makes no difference to that: the pin is not in the signed-out payload either.

An account that can bid on a board reads the same map with that board's tracts underneath it: the site address the landowner wrote, his access notes, his phone number, and his pin where he dropped one. That is not a new release. It is exactly what the request's own page already gives that account, drawn on a map instead of listed.

It is released one board at a time, because the boards are held one at a time. A logging crew reads the harvest tracts and not the stumpage sales; a mill reads the sales and not the harvest work; a land clearing contractor reads the dirt jobs and neither of the timber boards. All three are normal, and the counts for a board you do not hold stay on the page - you can see the work is there.

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