Forest Product Measurements, Conversion Factors, and Specifications

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Note: this post includes a link to Forisk’s Standard Conversion Values and Product Specifications. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? According to estimates from New York Fish & Wildlife Technician Richard Thomas (and more…

The Long View: How Forest Supplies Track Housing Starts and Timber Prices

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In September 2012, Forisk published analysis of timber markets across the U.S. South that estimated how excess sawtimber inventories could dampen or delay the “strengthening” of pine sawtimber and chip-n-saw prices in local timber markets.  Specifically, we wrote: “…the effect more…