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Thank you for reading the Forisk blog and sharing this content with others! The Forisk team posted 42 articles to our blog in 2024. Here are the top blog posts from 2024, along with a few other honorable mention posts: more…
This post includes data from Forisk’s North American Timberland Transactions Database and research from the Forisk Research Quarterly. 2023 was a down year for timberland transactions in the U.S. and Canada, with just over a million acres trading, well 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…
Backcourt As March approaches, much of the nation gets excited for basketball madness. At Forisk, March also marks a time to review the previous year. This time last year, we noted that timberland transactions bounced back in 2021. For context, more…
This represents our final update on timberland in 2022. After an action packed twelve months, where do we stand as we close out the year? Before we dive into 2022’s performance, let’s review some recent history. We bounced back in more…
After a bounce back year in 2021, 2022 is shaping up as another strong year for timberland transactions. Year-to-date, over 1.9 million acres of timberland deals have closed (see figure below). The ten year median value of timberland deal flow more…
This post is the second in a series related to the Q4 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis, timber price forecasts, and featured research on timber supplies in the Pacific Northwest. When investing in timber assets, we more…
Any way you slice it, 2020 was a slow year for large timberland transactions. Forisk’s tracking recorded approximately 1.6 million acres of completed large timberland transactions in 2020. Over the past decade, from 2010 through 2019, the median volume of more…
There has been some concern in the forest industry that the slump in pine harvesting following the Great Recession – combined with excessive inventory accumulation and poor stumpage pricing – may have contributed to a severe decline in tree planting 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…