Home construction drives baseline wood demand in the United States. Without demand for wood and forest products, timber and timberland values...
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The old joke, “Why did the sawmill owner sell his mill? Because he was board,” does not apply to hardwood lumber operations.
Investors looking to add timberlands to their portfolios and timberland-owning REITs looking to grow their asset base both face the challenge of...
After a very frustrating series of events over the past two weeks, I have a new phrase for buyers of rural real estate: “If you wait to see, don’t...
For the last decade, EU foreign policy has created a major demand for wood pellets in Europe, and in recent years the U.S. has emerged as the world’s...
In talking to recreational real estate buyers every day, it’s clear the market is back, fueled by growing confidence that the economy has stabilized...
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...
RecLand conducted an electronic survey among its land buyer and land owner database in January 2015 to get the answers to a few general questions...
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...