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Aunt Fanny and I stood on the woods road and looked through her forest of densely packed pine trees. Aunt Fanny removed her aviator sunglasses, folded them and put them in the front pocket of her camouflage jumpsuit. She turned more…
After measuring the diameter of the pine tree, Aunt Fanny handed the D-tape back to me. I returned her Cross pen and black-and-white marbled composition notebook. She opened the notebook and wrote down a few things. “Nephew, tell me more more…
Aunt Fanny adjusted her aviator sunglasses, put her hands on her hips and looked up at the loblolly pine tree in front of her. “Nephew, talk to me about timber prices. What’s this pine tree worth?” “This tree here is more…
At 5:10 in the morning, I pulled up to where the woods road met the county road near Murder Creek. A fading yellow metal gate blocked the entrance to the forest. I stepped out of the truck to unlock the more…
This post includes excerpts from Forisk’s timberland investment research and Brooks Mendell’s September 2014 presentation at the “Who Will Own the Forest?” conference in Portland, Oregon. The complete presentation is available here. During the ten-year period from January 2004 through more…
This is the sixth in a series related to Forisk’s 2014 mid-year forecast of U.S. timber prices. An “A Team” of nine forestry scientists and policy analysts recently published a review of the research behind accounting for carbon emissions related more…
This is the fourth in a series related to Forisk’s 2014 forecast of softwood stumpage prices in the United States. This excerpt comes from the feature article, which includes Forisk research on foreign exchange rates and capital investments in wood-using more…
This is the second in a series related to Forisk’s 2014 forecast of softwood stumpage prices and hardwood log prices in the United States. How did Forisk’s Forecast perform in 2013? For pine stumpage prices in the U.S. South, the more…
This is the first in a series related to Forisk’s 2014 forecast of softwood stumpage prices and hardwood log prices in the United States. When Ben Bernanke stepped down in January 2014 after two terms as Chairman of the Federal more…
NCREIF recently reported Q4 2013 total returns for private US timberlands of 5.92%. This total return number accounts for nearly two-thirds of the total 9.69% return for all of 2013. Big moves during the fourth quarter for the NCREIF Timberland more…