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Pandemics, Uncertainty, and the Wood Supply Chain

Posted on November 4, 2020 by Shawn Baker | no comments in Forest Operations, Wood Demand & Procurement

This post is the fourth in a series related to the Q4 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 this quarter on more…

Tags forest industry, logging employment, wood demand

Injuries, Fatalities, and Logging’s Status as the Most Dangerous Job in America

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Shawn Baker | no comments in Forest Operations

Every year around the holiday season, the forestry world anxiously awaits the arrival of more than just a few days of vacation and myriad off-key renditions of Auld Lang Syne. Each December, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the year-end more…

Tags forest industry, logging employment, safety

Localized Wood Demand and Logging Capacity: Perspective Matters

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Shawn Baker | comment (1) in Forest Operations, Timber Market Analysis, Wood Demand & Procurement

This post introduces research covered in the Q1 2020 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ). I’m not the world’s biggest baseball fan (I’m not even the biggest baseball fan at Forisk), but the quantitative nature of the game does appeal to me. For more…

Tags logging employment, wood demand

U.S. Logging Employment Over 15 Years

Posted on July 26, 2019 by Shawn Baker | no comments in Forest Operations

This is the third in a series related to Forisk’s Q3 2019 forest industry analysis and forecasts for the United States and Canada. Everyone can relate to the sensation of barely recognizing an old friend you’ve run into at a more…

Tags forest industry, logging employment

Meeting Growing Wood Demand with Limited Trucking Capacity

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Shawn Baker | no comments in Forest Operations, Risk Management

This post is the fourth in a series related to the Q2 2019 Forisk Research Quarterly Forisk forecasts an additional 3 BBFT of sawmill capacity in the South over the next three years. If trucking is strained, how do we more…

Tags logging employment, trucking

Is a short term decline in logging employment a long term concern?

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Shawn Baker | comments (2) in Forest Operations, Forest Technology

While I hesitate to use the phrase “can’t see the forest for the trees” when analyzing the timber industry, it does feel relevant when tracking trends and processing the floods of data coming at us in the modern world. Peter more…

Tags forest industry, logging employment

Canadian Logging Industry Hopes to Avoid the Buzzsaw

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Shawn Baker | no comments in Forest Operations, Wood Demand & Procurement

This is the second in a series related to Forisk’s Q4 2017 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States and Canada. A cartoon from my youth, the Rocky and Bullwinkle show, sometimes featured Dudley Do-Right, a more…

Tags Canada, logging employment

What Effect Do Health Insurance Costs Have On Logging Businesses?

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Shawn Baker | no comments in Forest Operations

With the impending vote on the American Health Care Act, there has been a tremendous amount of ink spilled regarding the cost of health insurance and its role in the economy. As the debate continues, I try to think about more…

Tags health insurance, logging employment

Forisk Forecast: U.S. Pacific Northwest Timber Market Update, Q3 2016

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Brooks Mendell | comment (1) in Forest Operations, Stumpage Forecasting, Timber Market Analysis

This is the fourth in a series related to Forisk’s Q3 2016 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. Coastal markets in the Pacific Northwest include 68 open sawmills that can consume over 44.8 million tons of more…

Tags logging employment, Pacific Northwest, wood demand

Western Logging Capacity – Is there a production sweet spot?

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Shawn Baker | comment (1) in Forest Operations, Wood Demand & Procurement

Logging in the Pacific Northwest maintains a magical mystique to many people. The steep terrain, rainy weather, and large logs lend themselves to romanticized, historical imaginings. In the end, however, the business of logging in the Coastal Range is much more…

Tags logging employment, Pacific Northwest

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