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This post includes themes from the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course. Class attendees will receive eBooks for the 7th Edition of Forest Finance Simplified and 2nd Edition of Aunt Fanny Learns Forestry! Introduction Forest finance is the language and analysis of managing more…
This is part two of a series evaluating the impacts of Hurricane Helene on timber markets in Georgia. Part one can be viewed here. Following Hurricane Helene’s landfall on September 26, 2024, multiple organizations put in a lot of work more…
When localizing forest supplies, mill capacities, forest operations, and pricing, each timber market produces a unique profile. This uniqueness highlights how timberland valuations, wood procurement strategies, and forest management plans get customized to optimize the market and company assets. Recently, more…
This is part one of a series evaluating the impacts of Hurricane Helene on timber markets in Georgia. On September 26, 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida as a Category 4 storm. Helene entered more…
Recently, at the CANOPY forestland investment conference in Portland, I participated on a panel about pulpwood markets in the U.S. South. While the region enjoys abundant forest resources and dozens of new wood-using mills, it has also seen the closure more…
In the forest industry, we study timber markets and the underlying data to understand relationships and risks. For timberland investing and the procurement of wood, systematic frameworks and proven processes help us analyze and compare markets and wood baskets to more…
This post includes content from the 7th edition of Forest Finance Simplified (forthcoming) and the upcoming Timber Market Analysis course (delivered virtually on October 16th & 17th).. Investors prefer assets that do not correlate with the stock market because they more…
This post includes data from Forisk’s Timberland Transactions Database and research from the Forisk Research Quarterly. We recently reviewed timberland transaction volume going back to 2014. We noted that 2023 was a slow year with just over 1 million more…
This post includes excerpts from the Q2 2024 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) feature article, “Topics on Forest Finance: Investment Criteria and Timberland Liquidity” and from the forthcoming 7th edition of Forest Finance Simplified. Liquidity – the ability to convert assets more…
This post includes data from Forisk’s North American Timberland Transactions Database and research from the Forisk Research Quarterly. 2023 was a down year for timberland transactions in the U.S. and Canada, with just over a million acres trading, well more…