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This post includes ideas and an excerpt of analysis from the Q2 2026 Forisk Research Quarterly. Introduction Forisk’s analysis of U.S. timberland investments and U.S. lumber manufacturers includes tracking Canadian wood-using manufacturing capacity and production. Canada’s lumber industry saws far more…
This post is an excerpt from the Q4 2025 Forisk Wood Fiber Review (WFR), which provides a quarterly review of pulpwood, chips, biomass markets and trade in the U.S. and Canada. With prices down and overall lumber markets soft in more…
By Gracie Knight, Forisk Intern In the Pacific Northwest (PNW), logs are typically scaled based on the Scribner Decimal C Log Rule that estimates the board feet of lumber recoverable from a log based on small end diameter and more…
“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.” – Douglas Adams While attending a recent forestry meeting, I received a text message about more sawmills closing due more…
This post includes data from the Q3 2024 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) and Forisk’s new digital platform for the North American Mill Capacity Database. Over the past 50 years, major shifts in the regional distribution of lumber capacity across North more…
This blog includes data from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review, a quarterly publication tracking North America’s major wood fiber markets. For more information, please visit www.forisk.com. At first glance, the Q1 2024 increase in whole-log chip prices might look like that portion more…
This blog includes data from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review, a quarterly publication tracking North America’s major wood fiber markets. For more information, please visit www.forisk.com. There are plenty of residual chips available in the northwest US, with consuming mills reporting more…
This post is the third in a series related to the Q4 2023 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. U.S. South Southern pine inventories increase 10% in ten years to a more…
This blog includes data from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review, a quarterly publication tracking North America’s major wood fiber markets. For more information, please visit www.forisk.com. The paper and packaging slowdown has reached into a third consecutive quarter and has more…
This post highlights featured research on our 2023 western silviculture survey from the Q2 2023 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. In 2023, Forisk completed our fourth survey of western more…