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The phone rings. Our forest manager wants to increase the budget for fertilization in 2014. How do we account for the original investment – the original capital used to acquire the timberland – when evaluating new projects for the same more…
This post includes an excerpt from the feature article in the December 2013 edition of Wood Bioenergy US (WBUS) that compares bioenergy industry projections to realized capacity. The current issue of Wood Bioenergy US (WBUS) compares industry announcements and Forisk research more…
In 1849, Martin Faustmann read an article about forest valuation and found it wanting. A German forester and appraiser, he developed and published an alternative technique for valuing bare forestland, or “dirt,” for tax purposes. Faustmann’s approach, a special application more…
The start of the holiday season signals the close of the strategic planning and budgeting cycle for many firms. In the forest products industry, over the next 24 months, prioritized investment projects will move from the white board to the more…
This post includes an excerpt from the feature article in the October/November edition of Wood Bioenergy US (WBUS) that compares pellet announcements to realized investment. Pellet plants in the U.S. today have two primary markets: domestic U.S. home heating and European more…
This post includes an excerpt from an editorial by Brooks Mendell published in the open access journal BioResources. Wood bioenergy investments—which include projects generating electricity, biofuels, and pellets from woody raw materials—necessitate decisions from a range of stakeholders. And yet, more…
In 2012, publicly-traded timberland-owning REITs, as measured by the Forisk Timber REIT (FTR) Index, outperformed the S&P 500, private timberland investments and the universe of publicly-traded real estate investment trusts: S&P 500 (2012): 13.41% Public REITs (NAREIT, 2012): more…
This post includes data from the August/September edition of Wood Bioenergy US (WBUS). In June 2012, Forisk posted data related to the rate of and reasons for bioenergy project failures since 2010. At the time, more projects in the U.S. had more…
This post includes an excerpt from the feature article in the August/September edition of Wood Bioenergy US (WBUS) about how wood demand from bioenergy is expected to affect state-by-state pine pulpwood stumpage prices. Wood bioenergy markets continue to impact timberland investments more…
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…