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This post includes topics addressed in the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on May 16th, 2023. Investors and managers in the forest industry often make decisions with imperfect and incomplete information. Therefore, we benefit by having an approach for dealing with more…
This post includes topics addressed in the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on May 16th, 2023. Introduction to Residual Land Use In graduate school, forest economist Dr. David Newman taught us that “timberland is a residual land use.” When he more…
This post includes topics addressed in the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on May 16th, 2023. What is a timber lease? In the book Forest Finance Simplified, I define timber leases as “contractual agreements that provide the lessors (owners) equal more…
This post is the second in a series related to the Q1 2023 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ). It includes topics that will also be addressed in the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on May 16th, 2023. What a difference a century more…
Visitor traffic on the Forisk Blog in 2022 was the second highest in company history. Thank you for reading and sharing this content with others! Here are top posts from 2022, along with a few popular posts by topic: Pros more…
For Forisk’s final post of 2022, we offer a set of current and historic forestry-related facts and quotations delivered trivia-style. Have fun (and happy holidays!) Question 1, Forest History Which U.S. President said, “The fundamental idea of forestry is the more…
When it comes to managing a forest or procuring wood or running a mill or analyzing a market, the “safest” and most productive posture for any professional is to understand what you’re looking at (transparency) and to know what to more…
This post is the second in a series related to the Q4 2022 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts. This post includes excerpts from the featured research article by Nick Bolton, Brooks Mendell, and more…
Forest products, whether evaluated from the perspective of embodied carbon or nature based solutions, could be viewed as an economic development “super food” that meets human needs with fewer environmental consequences. Forest products outperform other building materials in their ability more…
The Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh wrote, “When we want to understand something, we cannot just stand outside and observe it.”[1] Rather, to understand something, we study it. We invest time, ask questions, and evaluate evidence. We must engage. As more…