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CatchMark Timber Trust (CTT), formerly the private Wells Timber REIT, became a publicly-traded timberland-owning REIT on the New York Stock Exchange effective December 12, 2013. CatchMark’s IPO represents a pure, and path-breaking, “private-to-public” timber play. Investors and timberland investment managers, 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…
The phone rings. Our forest manager wants to increase the budget for fertilization in 2014. How do we account for the original investment – the original capital used to acquire the timberland – when evaluating new projects for the same more…
In 1849, Martin Faustmann read an article about forest valuation and found it wanting. A German forester and appraiser, he developed and published an alternative technique for valuing bare forestland, or “dirt,” for tax purposes. Faustmann’s approach, a special application more…
In 2012, publicly-traded timberland-owning REITs, as measured by the Forisk Timber REIT (FTR) Index, outperformed the S&P 500, private timberland investments and the universe of publicly-traded real estate investment trusts: S&P 500 (2012): 13.41% Public REITs (NAREIT, 2012): more…
This post includes excerpts from the September 19th “Accounting for Inflation in Timber Forecasts” presentation at the 2013 “Who Will Own the Forest?” (WWOTF) conference in Portland, Oregon. In 1913, one dollar bought 18 loaves of bread or three gallons more…
This is the third in a series related to Forisk’s 2013 mid-year forecast of softwood stumpage prices in the United States. The United States has more softwood trees than you can shake a stick at. Forisk analysis of U.S. Forest more…
This post includes an excerpt of the feature article in the May/June/July edition of Wood Bioenergy US (WBUS) written by Brooks Mendell, Ashley Barfield, and Amanda Lang. It is the second part of a two part series on liquid biofuels. Investors more…
This post includes an excerpt of the research in the February/March/April edition of Wood Bioenergy US (WBUS) and is the first part of a two part series on liquid biofuels. In May 2011, Forisk and the Schiamberg Group evaluated the viability more…
According to Forisk tracking of timberland ownership in the United States, 117 firms currently own or manage in excess of 100,000 acres of timberland. These firms feature the following descriptive statistics: As a group, they own/manage 86.2 million acres of more…