Description

Quarterly review of pulpwood, chips, logs, lumber, biomass markets, and trade in the U.S. and Canada.

Tracking wood fiber costs supports investment and operational decisions across a range of manufacturing facilities and markets within the forest sector.

The Forisk Wood Fiber Review (formerly the “North American Wood Fiber Review”) has tracked wood fiber markets in all major North American regions for nearly 35 years. This quarterly report includes delivered price data on pulpwood, wood chips, logs, and biomass by region for the U.S. and Canada, in addition to market information and data on regional wood fiber markets and trade statistics for lumber, logs, wood pellets, wood chips, and pulp.

In 2025, Forisk expanded the coverage in the Wood Fiber Review report to include ongoing analysis of North America’s softwood lumber sector and log prices in the Pacific Northwest. The new ongoing analysis of North America’s softwood lumber sector focuses on productivity, utilization rates, profitability, and residuals.

The Wood Fiber Review provides updates of softwood and hardwood prices for all major markets in North America. Prices are reported for wood delivered to consuming plants as a range and average price in comparable units; metric tonnes, bone-dry tons, and green tons. The 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.

The Forisk Wood Fiber Review tracks fiber costs and market developments in the following markets:

Subscription Details:

• Annual (4-quarter) subscription with reports published four times per year in the last month of each quarter: March, June, September and December.
• Quarterly report (PDF) is delivered electronically via Forisk’s client portal.
• Subscribers have the ability to purchase historical price data (excel file) as a subscription add-on.
• Firms that subscribe to the Wood Fiber Review gain access to Forisk’s staff for on-call questions and support directly related to the product as part of the subscription package.

To learn more about or purchase the Forisk Wood Fiber Review, please email Nick DiLuzio (ndiluzio@forisk.com).

Effective December 31, 2019, Forisk Consulting acquired the North American Wood Fiber Review (NAWFR) market report from Wood Resources International LLC (WRI). Click here to view the press release. Forisk will continue publishing the same data that subscribers are accustomed to receiving, under the new product name “Forisk Wood Fiber Review.”