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Earlier this year, we reported on the status of U.S timberland transactions year-to-date in 2021. Based on the current trend of timberland transaction activity at the time, the forecast for 2021 seemed promising. How has this prediction held up in more…
Forest carbon can affect timberland values to the extent that robust markets for carbon support reliable cash flows to investors. With wood, the economic value of trees derives from the ability of manufacturers to turn logs into value added products more…
This post is the sixth in a series related to the Q2 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis, timber price forecasts and featured research on forest carbon. North America’s forest industry is closing in on two more…
This post includes data from Forisk’s 2021 North American Timberland Owner & Manager List and the Q2 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly. This past year, Forisk marked its sixteenth year of tracking timberland transactions and aggregating timberland owner data. Currently, this tracking includes 323 more…
This post is the fourth in a series related to the Q2 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis, timber price forecasts and featured research on forest carbon. Markets facilitate trade between buyers and sellers; they assign value more…
This is the third in a series related to the Q2 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. The recovery we are witnessing in Western Canada logging employment may be more…
This is the second in a series related to the Q2 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. Each quarter when updating our Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) forecast models, we revisit more…
This post is the first in a series related to the Q2 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. Featured research in the next issue will focus on forest carbon. Investor more…
The physical facts of nature help us, at times, reconcile contradictions in the marketplace. Consider the disparity between sky-scraping softwood lumber prices and the pedestrian prices received by forestland owners in the U.S. South for their logs. I hear from more…
Continued high lumber prices encouraged sawmills to maintain aggressive production levels in Q1 2021, further increasing residual chip supplies in the Northwest. The return of two fiber consumers to the region— Cosmo Specialty Fiber in Washington and the Roseburg Forest more…