Investors make, or don’t make, decisions on how to allocate capital and other resources based on their understanding of the current situation.
Brooks Mendell, Ph.D.
The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election released the night owls in my iPhone. Once the election results were in, the emails started stacking up at 3 a.m...
Some markets are more important than others for timberland investors and forest managers. While timberland owners sell logs to mills that make poles...
Forecasting has achieved a somewhat mystical status. This is undeserved. High dependence on a third party forecast is simply an exercise in...
Forisk has built hundreds of market-specific, forward-looking models for timber prices, forest industry production, wood bioenergy capacities, and...
In 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. He found that trees do not grow on there; as a souvenir, he brought home a rock...
While the global implications of the British exit – “Brexit” – from the EU remain uncertain, it appears, at a minimum, to complicate trade between...
Led by the Weyerhaeuser/Plum Creek merger and Potlatch’s Q2 2016 timberland divestiture in Idaho, public timberland-owning REITs purchased and...
What is the “investable universe” of timberlands in the United States? According to analysis by Forisk in 2015, “investable” timberlands, or...
One challenge of investing in a forest is determining when it reaches financial maturity. This is when the owner’s cost of keeping an asset exceeds...