Each quarter, when publishing the Forisk Research Quarterly, our team reviews the performance of prior projections to learn and adjust models, or to...
Brooks Mendell, Ph.D.
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...
Forest finance is the language of managing timber resources as investments. It addresses three questions. First, the investment decision considers...
What a difference a century can make. One hundred years ago, forestry in the United States featured massive wildfires, aggressive conversion to...
To open 2023, we offer a set of current and historic forest industry-related facts and quotations delivered trivia-style. Have fun (and Happy New...
The late philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn introduced the term ‘paradigm shift’ in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. While Kuhn...