Thank you for reading the Forisk blog and sharing our content with others! In 2025, the Forisk team published 41 blog posts covering everything from lumber capacity and timberland ownership to mill announcements and tariffs. Below are the most-read posts of the year, along with several honorable mentions.

1. Top 10 North American and U.S. Lumber Producers, 2024

Taking this year’s top honors, this post by Pat Jolley and Amanda Lang from February 2025 provides our annual update on the top 10 softwood lumber producers based on data from Forisk’s North American Mill Capacity Database. This one is a perennial favorite.

2. North America’s Top Timberland Owners and Managers, 2025 Update

This May 2025 post by Matt Camp and Joshua Uzu provides an update on the top 10 timberland owners and managers based on data from Forisk’s North American Timberland Owner and Manager List.

3. Forisk Market Bulletin: May 2025 Mill Update

This May 2025 post by Pat Jolley and Amanda Lang provides an overview of mill announcements across North America during the first two quarters of 2025.

4. Delivered Log Price Trends in the Pacific Northwest

Based on data from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review, this June 2025 post from Brooks Mendell reports on trends in Pacific Northwest softwood log prices for domestic and export logs from Q1 2024 through Q1 2025.

Did You Know? The Forisk Wood Fiber Review now includes ongoing analysis of North America’s softwood lumber sector and log prices in the Pacific Northwest? This new western log price coverage includes current prices and pricing trends for domestic #2 and export logs for Douglas-fir and hemlock for coastal Oregon and Washington.

 5. Tariffs on Imports from Canada? Tell Me More!

While ‘rage bait’ was Oxford’s word of the year, there is no doubt that ‘tariffs’ was not far behind. In his February 2025 blog post, Brooks Mendell provided some context for the role of tariffs and their relative policy importance to markets for housing, lumber, and timber.

6. What Would be Required for the U.S. to be Self-Sufficient for Softwood Lumber?

Amongst all of the tariff chatter in 2025 (see #5 above), Amanda Lang took a deeper dive in the Q2 2025 edition of the Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) to explore whether the U.S. could realistically replace Canadian lumber imports – and what it would take to get there.

A Few Other Reader Favorites from 2025:

Financial Health of the Logging Industry by Shawn Baker (July 2025)

Timberland Tetris: Putting the Proposed Merger of PotlatchDeltic and Rayonier into Context by Brooks Mendell (October 2025)

The World’s Top Pulp Producers and Consumers by Shawn Baker (October 2025)

Whether you’re here for lumber rankings, timberland ownership, mill updates, forest finance, or the occasional tariff deep dive, we appreciate you being part of the Forisk blog community. Thanks for reading, sharing, and discussing these posts with us throughout 2025. We’re already gearing up for another year of analysis and market insights in 2026—so stay tuned and let us know what topics you’d like to see next.