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We are thrilled to announce that The Forest History Society published the book “Wood for Bioenergy: Forests as a Resource for Biomass and Biofuels” by Forisk authors Brooks Mendell and Amanda Hamsley Lang. The book reviews the historical context and more…
This is the first in a three-part series related to Forisk’s modeling of future softwood stumpage prices in the US South and Pacific Northwest. Increasing housing starts prime the pump during an economic recovery. The Economist magazine describes the upside more…
As of March 30th, publicly-traded timberland-owning REITs, as measured by the Forisk Timber REIT (FTR) Index, returned 11.45% year-to-date. This culminated a month of coverage and articles that highlighted both Forisk’s equity research of timber REITs and the performance and more…
One reality of market and investment research is that if a data set “should” exist, it doesn’t. And if it does exist, it’s probably out of date (especially in forestry). Therefore, my team views the systematic aggregation, tracking and analysis more…
The “80/20 rule” – also called the “Pareto principle” for Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto – posits that approximately 80% of your results or effects derive from 20% of the causes. Look around and examples materialize. 80% of your revenue more…
When tracking wood demand and timber markets, we look not only to the past and to the future for guidance, but also to the side – peripherally – to gauge performance across markets and sectors. Heather Clark, our Customer Relations more…
Last week, I met with the CEO of one of world’s largest forest management and consulting firms. We ended up discussing a mutually perplexing question, “why do some timberland investors prioritize macro issues like housing at the expense of understanding more…
Despite optimism that pine grade demand would increase during Q2 2011 in the US South, it fell slightly by 0.6% to 18.4 million tons at 424 mills that consumed pine grade. Although small, this was the first drop since Q3 more…
Major League Baseball turned to the US Forest Service to evaluate the “epidemic” of wood baseball bats breaking during baseball games. The Associated Press recently reported how research engineer Dave Kretschmann at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin has more…
Last month, our team published a project-by-project study of the US biofuels sector called “Transportation Fuels from Wood: Investment and Market Implications of Current Projects and Technologies.” One of the 36 projects evaluated in the study is KiOR, which went public more…