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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…
Through executing the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson proved himself, among other things, the preeminent timberland acquisition professional. In this bold embrace, he more than doubled the size of the United States by acquiring 820,000 square miles of more…
Want a simple method for valuing stocks and income earning real estate or timberland? Consider the Dividend Discount Model by dividing next year’s income, assuming it will be earned annually in perpetuity, by a constant discount rate or cost of more…
When talking about timberland investing while having a beer or standing over the hood of a truck, not when signing checks or allocating capital….. A reasonable estimate of a forest’s current economic value equals the standing merchantable volume multiplied by the more…
News flash: we all make errors when analyzing forestry investments. Which are the most common and how can we avoid them? At the end of the day, most analytic errors in forestry relate to the data used – the inputs more…
Attention shoppers! An NPV of zero does not necessarily indicate “bad investment.” Previously, we discussed applications and limitations of using cash-on-cash (COCR) return as a metric for analyzing forestry and timber investments, as well as questions related to internal rate more…