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Forisk Blog Articles by: Shawn Baker

Pandemics, Uncertainty, and the Wood Supply Chain

Posted on November 4, 2020 by Shawn Baker | no comments in Forest Operations, Wood Demand & Procurement

This post is the fourth in a series related to the Q4 2020 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. The post includes excerpts from our featured research this quarter on more…

Tags forest industry, logging employment, wood demand

Injuries, Fatalities, and Logging’s Status as the Most Dangerous Job in America

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Shawn Baker | no comments in Forest Operations

Every year around the holiday season, the forestry world anxiously awaits the arrival of more than just a few days of vacation and myriad off-key renditions of Auld Lang Syne. Each December, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the year-end more…

Tags forest industry, logging employment, safety

Pulpwood Demand and Paper Production

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Shawn Baker | comment (1) in Pulp & Paper, Wood Demand & Procurement

This post is the third in a series related to the Q3 2020 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. The post includes excerpts from our pulp and paper research. Our more…

Tags forest industry, paper and paperboard, wood demand

Forisk’s 2020 Survey of Private Forest Management in the U.S. South

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Shawn Baker | comments (2) in Forest Finance & Economics

This is the fourth in a series related to the Q2 2020 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. Forisk surveys private timberland owners and managers in the U.S. South every more…

Spotlight on Eastern Canada Fiber Prices – Q1 2020

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Shawn Baker | no comments in Pulp & Paper, Wood Prices

Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the Canada rail blockades stood as the major supply chain disruption of the quarter in Eastern Canada. Protests of a pipeline crossing First Nations lands in Western Canada challenged incoming and outgoing rail deliveries for more…

Tags Canada, pulpwood, wood fiber

Localized Wood Demand and Logging Capacity: Perspective Matters

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Shawn Baker | comment (1) in Forest Operations, Timber Market Analysis, Wood Demand & Procurement

This post introduces research covered in the Q1 2020 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ). I’m not the world’s biggest baseball fan (I’m not even the biggest baseball fan at Forisk), but the quantitative nature of the game does appeal to me. For more…

Tags logging employment, wood demand

How much longer will pine sawtimber accumulate in the U.S. South?

Posted on October 25, 2019 by Shawn Baker | no comments in Timber Supply, Wood Demand & Procurement

This is the third in a series related to Forisk’s Q4 2019 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States. It contains an excerpt from our feature article on timber supply in the U.S. South co-authored by more…

Tags sustainability, timber forecast, wood demand

Ranking Timber Supply in the Pacific Northwest

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Shawn Baker | no comments in Timber Market Analysis, Timberlands

“Better a diamond with a flaw, than a pebble without” – Confucious No measure is perfect. BMI, EBITDA, OPS+, all of these provide a relatively simple picture of something: weight, earnings, or offensive production. None of them tells the whole more…

Tags Pacific Northwest, timberland investments, wood demand

U.S. Logging Employment Over 15 Years

Posted on July 26, 2019 by Shawn Baker | no comments in Forest Operations

This is the third in a series related to Forisk’s Q3 2019 forest industry analysis and forecasts for the United States and Canada. Everyone can relate to the sensation of barely recognizing an old friend you’ve run into at a more…

Tags forest industry, logging employment

Meeting Growing Wood Demand with Limited Trucking Capacity

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Shawn Baker | no comments in Forest Operations, Risk Management

This post is the fourth in a series related to the Q2 2019 Forisk Research Quarterly Forisk forecasts an additional 3 BBFT of sawmill capacity in the South over the next three years. If trucking is strained, how do we more…

Tags logging employment, trucking

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