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This is the first in a two-part series related to wood supply agreements and their relevance to analyzing timber markets. In his 1989 book Liar’s Poker, Michael Lewis wrote, “Risk, I learned, was a commodity. Risk could be canned and more…
This post includes an excerpt of the research in the February/March/April edition of Wood Bioenergy US (WBUS) and is the first part of a two part series on liquid biofuels. In May 2011, Forisk and the Schiamberg Group evaluated the viability more…
This is the sixth in a series related to Forisk’s 2013 forecast of softwood stumpage prices in the United States. When housing crashed in the United States, forest owners and timberland investors deferred harvesting sawtimber, the logs needed to manufacture more…
This is the fifth in a series related to Forisk’s 2013 forecast of softwood stumpage prices in the United States. In the 2013 Forisk Forecast published in March, four key themes frame the outlook for the next ten years: Timber more…
This is the fourth in a series related to Forisk’s 2013 forecast of softwood stumpage prices in the United States. How did Forisk’s Forecast perform in 2012? For pine stumpage prices in the U.S. South, the Forisk Forecast was within more…
According to Forisk tracking of timberland ownership in the United States, 117 firms currently own or manage in excess of 100,000 acres of timberland. These firms feature the following descriptive statistics: As a group, they own/manage 86.2 million acres of more…
Through executing the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson proved himself, among other things, the preeminent timberland acquisition professional. In this bold embrace, he more than doubled the size of the United States by acquiring 820,000 square miles of more…
Money does grow on trees. Unfortunately, it grows in small denominations. So we care deeply about managing costs and minimizing taxes. Which brings us to a category of questions I get each tax season: timber depletion. What is it? Depletion, more…
This is the third in a series related to Forisk’s 2013 forecast of softwood stumpage prices in the United States. One of the best books I read in 2012 was David McCullough’s The Path Between the Seas about the building more…
This is the second in a series related to Forisk’s 2013 forecast of softwood stumpage prices in the United States. Herman Chapman, in his 1935 book Forest Finance, wrote: Forestry is an empirical art and not a mathematical science. The more…