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This post includes themes from the newly updated 7th Edition of Forest Finance Simplified and 2nd Edition of Aunt Fanny Learns Forestry. Forest Finance Simplified, a book I originally wrote as a reference for myself, helps readers strengthen their understanding of and more…
This post includes content from the Q3 2025 Forisk Research Quarterly and ideas covered in the virtual Timber Market Analysis class, offered on October 1st and 2nd, 2025. Introduction Sports offer fans familiar mathematical benchmarks and ratios. In professional baseball, more…
This post includes ideas and content covered in the virtual Timber Market Analysis class, October 1st and 2nd, 2025. Lumber prices, OSB prices, construction spending, and housing starts are down. Manufacturing input costs, tariff rates, and policy frictions are up. more…
This post includes ideas and content from the Q3 2025 Forisk Research Quarterly. Humans use petroleum products and coal to power factories, propel cars, and illuminate cities. We consume and release in dozens of years what required hundreds of millions more…
This post includes data and market intelligence from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review and the “Market Update” in the Q2 2025 Forisk Research Quarterly. Forisk tracks domestic and export log prices in the Pacific Northwest as part of the Forisk more…
For timberland investors, integrated firms that own timberland and mills, and wood-using manufacturers, the exercise for realizing value is specific to the trees grown, sold, and procured from each local timber market or wood basket. This forest industry reality becomes more…
This post includes themes from the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on April 3rd, 2025. Early registration ends March 20th! Participants also receive copies of the new 7th edition of Forest Finance Simplified. We learn by doing. This is true more…
This post includes themes from the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on April 3rd, 2025. Early registration ends March 20th! Over the past 30 years, the ownership and management of private industrial forestland has changed. Fewer forest owning firms are more…
This post includes themes from the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on April 3rd, 2025. Early registration ends March 20th! The investable universe for institutional timberland in the U.S. is modest compared to markets for stocks, bonds, currencies, or real more…
Between reporting on artificial intelligence and the Luka Doncic trade to the LA Lakers, news leaked about potential U.S. tariffs on imports from Canada. While headlines screamed – see the January 31st The Wall Street Journal editorial “The Dumbest Trade more…