{"id":1216,"date":"2026-06-03T12:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bctimbersales\/?page_id=1216"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:46:13","slug":"timber-sales-licences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bctimbersales\/timber-sales-licences\/","title":{"rendered":"Timber Sales Licences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-engagement-container\"><div class=\"engagement-page\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-engagement-content\"><bcgov-breadcrumb>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bctimbersales\">Home<\/a>\n                          <span>\n        Timber Sales Licences\n  <\/span>\n  <div style=\"display: flex\" slot=\"breadcrumb-extra\">\n      <\/div>\n  <\/bcgov-breadcrumb>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"bcgov-engagement-header \">Timber Sales Licences<\/h1>\n<p>BC Timber Sales (BCTS) sells about 20% of the provincial harvest through competitive auction. This timber is&nbsp;available to loggers, wood processors and other forestry businesses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;auction of timber sales licences&nbsp;determines the market value of timber harvested from public (Crown)&nbsp;land, which is used to set&nbsp;the stumpage rate&nbsp;and ensure British Columbian\u2019s receive a fair price for our shared timber resource.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about timber sale licences on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/industry\/forestry\/bc-timber-sales\/tsl\" title=\"\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-engagement-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#38598a\">Most Popular<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list 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This timber is&nbsp;available to loggers, wood processors and other forestry businesses.&nbsp; The&nbsp;auction of timber sales licences&nbsp;determines the market value of timber harvested from public (Crown)&nbsp;land, which is used to set&nbsp;the stumpage rate&nbsp;and ensure British Columbian\u2019s receive a fair price for our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bctimbersales\/timber-sales-licences\/\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" >Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1216","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bctimbersales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bctimbersales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bctimbersales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bctimbersales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bctimbersales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bctimbersales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bctimbersales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1216\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/bctimbersales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}