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Co-authored by Joshua Uzu This post includes data from Forisk’s North American Timberland Transactions Database and research from the Q2 2025 Forisk Research Quarterly. As noted in previous updates, 2023 and 2024 were below average years for timberland transaction more…
Co-authored by Joshua Uzu This post includes data from Forisk’s 2025 North American Timberland Owner & Manager List and the Q2 2025 Forisk Research Quarterly. Forisk has been tracking timberland transactions and aggregating timberland owner data since 2005. The 2025 edition of the North more…
This post includes data from Forisk’s 2024 North American Timberland Owner & Manager List and the Q2 2024 Forisk Research Quarterly. Forisk has been tracking timberland transactions and aggregating timberland owner data since 2005. The 2024 edition of the North American Timberland Owner & more…
This post includes data from Forisk’s 2023 North American Timberland Owner & Manager List and the Q2 2023 Forisk Research Quarterly. Forisk marked its eighteenth year of tracking timberland transactions and aggregating timberland owner data. Currently, this tracking includes 308 organizations in more…
Forisk has tracked and accumulated timberland transaction and ownership data since 2006. The ownership data goes back 50 years and the transaction data goes back 20 years to 1996. This provides context when reviewing year-over-year trends. In the past twelve more…
This post includes data from featured research in the Q2 2016 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ). In Spring 2016, Forisk conducted its third biennial survey regarding current management trends and common silviculture practices for the largest timberland owners and managers in 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…
As of March 30th, publicly-traded timberland-owning REITs, as measured by the Forisk Timber REIT (FTR) Index, returned 11.45% year-to-date. This culminated a month of coverage and articles that highlighted both Forisk’s equity research of timber REITs and the performance and more…
One reality of market and investment research is that if a data set “should” exist, it doesn’t. And if it does exist, it’s probably out of date (especially in forestry). Therefore, my team views the systematic aggregation, tracking and analysis more…
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein once said, “the hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” On the other hand, actor Wesley Snipes reportedly said, “taxes are only complicated if you pay them.” (Actually, that might have more…