Investors looking to add timberlands to their portfolios and timberland-owning REITs looking to grow their asset base both face the challenge of...
Brooks Mendell, Ph.D.
Anytime we look to predict the outcome of a Super Bowl in football or World Series in baseball, we look at history and physical facts. How did teams...
Big jobs, done well, take time. And successful timberland investing and management take time. How can any forester manage a forest quickly?
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.