When tracking wood demand and timber markets, we look not only to the past and to the future for guidance, but we look to the side – peripherally –...
Brooks Mendell, Ph.D.
Timber REIT returns depend on strong demand from end-use markets for forest products such as lumber, plywood, pulp and OSB. This explains the...
Questions and comments regarding a study we published with the Schiamberg Group have focused on (1) why a given wood-using transportation fuel...
With uncertainty in Europe, tight credit markets and falling projections for demand for commercial office space and residential construction...
Producing a proper wood-derived biofuel follows a three-step recipe. One, grow trees. Two, break down wood from the trees into its components.
Our research and analysis of publicly-traded, timberland owning real estate investment trusts (REITs) tends to focus on the status of wood markets...
“How do timberland investment managers make money?” The question itself, asked by an analyst working for an institutional investor, was...
According to Forisk tracking of timberland ownership, 58 firms currently own or manage in excess of 100,000 acres of timberlands in the United States.
Major League Baseball turned to the US Forest Service to evaluate the “epidemic” of wood baseball bats breaking during baseball games.
It’s December 31, 2010 and you’re sitting on a pile of cash. Do you invest in the S&P 500, an all-REIT index, private timberlands or publicly-traded...