In our 2024 virtual Applied Forest Finance course, I will include investment implications and analysis of forest carbon as relevant to forest owners...
Brooks Mendell, Ph.D.
Brooks Mendell, Ph.D. is President and Founder of Forisk Consulting, a forest industry, timber REIT, bioenergy and timber market research firm. Dr. Mendell has over fifteen years of operating, research, and consulting experience in forest business and finance. Mendell has published over sixty articles and two books on topics related to timber and timberland REITs and markets, forest business management and operations, and communication skills.
The forest industry often experiences a version of the “Tuesday-Wednesday problem,” where good news one day is followed by difficult news the next...
Real estate investment trusts (REITs) own and manage income producing real estate such as buildings, bowling alleys, warehouses, and, since 1999...
Investing in wood-using mills and timberlands requires having a strategy about how to “feed” the mill or how to “market” the trees. These efforts...
As trees grow, they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This capturing of “forest carbon” is one modest part of a major transformation in how...
Each quarter, when publishing the Forisk Research Quarterly, our team reviews the performance of prior projections to learn and adjust models, or to...
Given the variety of timber markets, wood-using mills, and forest supplies across regions, how do we organize our thinking for deciding what to do...
Calculating a mathematical average represents one approach for assessing data, or for establishing baselines or trends in the marketplace. However...
In graduate school, forest economist Dr. David Newman taught us that “timberland is a residual land use.” When he said that, I wrote it down and...
Each year, when teaching Forisk’s Applied Forest Finance short course, I add content to address new or timely questions from forest owners and...