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Forestry is an industry of long time horizons. We often measure our performance over decades. Even in the comparatively fast-growing stands of the Southern U.S., forest rotations stretch to three decades or more. In that light, short-term disruptions feel less 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…
This post is the second in a series related to the Q4 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis, timber price forecasts, and featured research on timber supplies in the Pacific Northwest. When investing in timber assets, we 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…
Forest carbon can affect timberland values to the extent that robust markets for carbon support reliable cash flows to investors. With wood, the economic value of trees derives from the ability of manufacturers to turn logs into value added products more…
This post is the third 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 Forisk Facts and Figures section. Tyler more…
Each week, our team communicates with dozens of forest industry professionals and investors. At times, these discussions reveal patterns or highlight concerns common across sectors and regions. This post shares and answers versions of three of the most consistently asked more…
This post is the fourth 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 Regional Summary for the U.S. South. more…
Lawmakers proposed legislation last week that set a goal for the United States to support planting one trillion trees by 2050 globally to address climate change. Trees absorb and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and the bill is touted more…