Timberland markets remain extremely competitive as investors struggle to acquire assets and conduct the analysis to make the math work, a topic...
Brooks Mendell, Ph.D.
In our 2024 virtual Applied Forest Finance course, I will include investment implications and analysis of forest carbon as relevant to forest owners...
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...