Big jobs, done well, take time. And successful timberland investing and management take time. How can any forester manage a forest quickly?
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.
Over the years, I’ve written a lot of articles and taught a lot of workshops related to forest finance and timber market analysis. This work resulted...
Fees critically matter for evaluating investment returns. Index fund pioneer and Vanguard founder, John Bogle, said, “You get what you don't pay for...
Timberland investors rely on strong wood demand from mills located near their timberland properties to generate cash flows and drive returns.
In the timber industry, we care about housing starts because increased home building leads to growing demand for lumber and other building products...
Evaluating timber markets for timberland investment purposes requires analysis of both space and time. Spatial analysis – using maps and mapping...
This article touches on two areas associated with evaluating local timber that have direct relevance to analyzing timber markets for investment and...
For timberland investors and managers, the past twelve months have produced a series of positive events and encouraging data points.
All arrows continue to point up for timber prices and revenues received by U.S. timberland investors in 2014 and moving forward. Why? Because capital...
In the United States, “industrial” timberlands – those acres owned and managed with a primary objective of generating more wood volume and cash flows...