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A historic fire season continued to be the dominant story across the U.S. West as landowners assessed damage to timberlands, tried to arrange salvage operations, and planned for recuperating damaged lands. The toll of a destructive 2020 wildfire season is more…
“Risk” remained the watchword over the past three months as managers continued to battle multiple issues: fires, hurricanes, COVID, and record lumber prices. Lumber production surged in Q3 2020, generating more residual volumes into fiber markets while demand from the 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 second 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 featured research on applying long-term timber more…
As management teams across the forest industry position themselves for ‘post-COVID’ markets, many pulp and paper mills chose downtime for now. SAPPI Cloquet, UPM Blandon at Grand Rapid, and Domtar’s Dryden mill offer examples of firms and facilities that modified more…
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the Canada rail blockades stood as the major supply chain disruption of the quarter in Eastern Canada. Protests of a pipeline crossing First Nations lands in Western Canada challenged incoming and outgoing rail deliveries for 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…
Forisk has acquired the North American Wood Fiber Review from Wood Resources International of Bothell, Washington. The Review, which tracks wood fiber markets in all major regions of the U.S. and Canada, will be published as the Forisk Wood Fiber more…