Forecasting has achieved a somewhat mystical status. This is undeserved. High dependence on a third party forecast is simply an exercise in...
Tag - Timberland Investing
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...
In 2015, the U.S. consumed about 50 billion board feet of lumber. Softwood lumber used to build homes and made from species such as pine, fir and...
Aunt Fanny called the other day at 4:14 a.m. to tell me about her growing timberland portfolio and to remind me that, “Nephew, you earn more if you...
Benchmarking provides a useful, and often necessary, tool for evaluating the performance of alternative investments (such as private timberlands)...
The July LANDTHINK Pulse revealed that 65.1% of respondents would be more concerned with capital appreciation than immediate cash flow, if they were...
One benefit of working on projects for different clients and teaching workshops for a range of folks is the variety of questions asked.
Investors looking to add timberlands to their portfolios and timberland-owning REITs looking to grow their asset base both face the challenge of...
Big jobs, done well, take time. And successful timberland investing and management take time. How can any forester manage a forest quickly?