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This post includes topics addressed in the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on May 19th, 2022 and covered in the Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ). Annual reports by The World Bank on global carbon crediting trends organize the data across 12 more…
This post includes topics addressed in the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on May 19th, 2022. Answer Net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR) can provide conflicting guidance when comparing investments or capital projects with different risk more…
This post is the third in a series related to the Q1 2022 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ). It includes topics that will also be addressed in the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on May 19th, 2022. Timberland-owning real estate investment trusts more…
This post is the second in a series related to the Q1 2022 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ). It includes topics that will also be addressed in the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on May 19th, 2022. Forest carbon opportunities profit from more…
This post is the first in a series related to the Q1 2022 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ). It includes topics that will also be addressed in the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on May 19th, 2022. Years ago, a forest industry more…
Visitor traffic on the Forisk Blog increased 44% in 2021 over 2020, for a ninth consecutive year of growth. Thank you! Here are top posts from 2021, along with a few popular posts by topic: Pros and Cons of Using more…
The biology and science of growing trees has an uneasy and inconsistent relationship with the economics of pricing timber. Like hair, forests grow. Unfortunately, U.S. wood use declined 34% during the Great Recession. Fortunately, over the past five years alone, more…
A timberland investment, in and of itself, comprises a bundle of diversified cash flows. The sources of these flows include softwood and hardwood logs and fiber, hunting leases, cell phone towers and, increasingly, ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration. These more…
Investors and analysts can tend to “boil the ocean” – to analyze everything – in evaluating opportunities or new markets. In forestry, this is especially the case with first-time investors in the industry. However, at some point, we need to more…
North America’s forest industry is closing in on two decades of significant capacity relocation. Not only is this reflected in the expansion of sawmill, panel and pellet capacity in the South, but also in the fact that timberland owners have more…