Delivered Log Price Trends in the Pacific Northwest

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This post includes data and market intelligence from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review and the “Market Update” in the Q2 2025 Forisk Research Quarterly. Forisk tracks domestic and export log prices in the Pacific Northwest as part of the Forisk more…

How to Compare Timber Markets and Wood Baskets During Trade Wars, Recessions, and Recoveries

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For timberland investors, integrated firms that own timberland and mills, and wood-using manufacturers, the exercise for realizing value is specific to the trees grown, sold, and procured from each local timber market or wood basket. This forest industry reality becomes more…

Q1 2024 Forisk Wood Fiber Review: PNW Residual Chip Prices Continue Downward Trend; Whole-Log Chip Production Regaining Momentum

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This blog includes data from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review, a quarterly publication tracking North America’s major wood fiber markets. For more information, please visit www.forisk.com. At first glance, the Q1 2024 increase in whole-log chip prices might look like that portion more…

Q4 2023 Forisk Wood Fiber Review: Chip Prices Continue to Fall as Demand Wanes in the Pacific Northwest

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This blog includes data from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review, a quarterly publication tracking North America’s major wood fiber markets. For more information, please visit www.forisk.com. There are plenty of residual chips available in the northwest US, with consuming mills reporting more…

Q3 2023 Forisk Wood Fiber Review: Soft Product Markets Continue to Affect Fiber Prices and Woodyard Inventories

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This blog includes data from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review, a quarterly publication tracking North America’s major wood fiber markets. For more information, please visit www.forisk.com. Usually, at least one market in the forest industry is hot: lumber, paper, packaging, veneer, specialty more…

Timberland Ownership and Wood Supply Agreements

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Investing in wood-using mills and timberlands requires having a strategy about how to “feed” the mill or how to “market” the trees. These efforts raise questions about the relative value of vertical integration, where one firm owns mills and forests, more…

Q2 2023 Forisk Wood Fiber Review: Paper and Packaging’s Slowdown Is Starting to Impact U.S. Wood Prices

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This blog includes data from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review, a quarterly publication tracking North America’s major wood fiber markets. For more information, please visit www.forisk.com. The paper and packaging slowdown has reached into a third consecutive quarter and has more…