A hurricane would flood the market even more and the stumpage prices would drop like a lead sinker, you would have a hard time getting anybody to cut your timber. Your pole prices would be gone for years with the wind shake if the trees survived the hurricane.
The biggest negative in timber prices we have had in NW Fl and south Alabama was when the Koch brothers bought Alabama River, Stone Container in Brewton and the GP mill at Cedar Springs, Georgia. They set the prices and everybody else fell in line with their pricing. Why should they pay a higher price for pulpwood delivered when they are on tight quota and getting all they want.
South Alabama hardwood logs don't have the quality the furniture makers want and the south Alabama veneer is basically just a filler layer in hardwood veneer. They don't even want the south Alabama white oak for whiskey barrels.
About all the mills are full and on quota, don't look for delivered prices to get better for a long time. Another problem is that the loggers are going out of business, starved out by tight quota, higher equipment expenses, higher fuel and other petroleum product prices and labor among other expensive problems.
The longleaf I was speaking about is a 400 acre plantation. The owner can lease a couple of big excavators and put a stump puller head on them and pop a lot of stumps out in a day.