Last month, the LANDTHINK Pulse posed the following question to our audience: Within the next year, which region of the United States do you think...
Tag - Timberland
While log prices in the West surge and bounce, sawtimber prices in the South stagnated in 2017.
As we discussed in Understanding Timber Value: Part I, one key tool for timberland buyers, managers and sellers is having access to reliable...
Is there any valuable timber on my property? This is one of the most commonly-asked questions we hear when speaking with potential forestland sellers...
Back when Garrison Keillor hosted the radio program “Prairie Home Companion,” he would tell stories about Lake Wobegon, a small fictional town in...
The destructive flooding and weather events of 2017 centered in Texas and Florida remind us that Mother Nature is a force to be reckoned with...
The pursuit of the ‘preferred answer’ starts early in life. Any two-year old knows to ask Dad after Mom says, “No.”
Both in my job as a land agent and land manager, I often hear the excuse from older landowners that they don’t plan to reforest (that is, plant...
There is a tendency to cherry-pick forecasts. A market forecast can be used to serve many masters, and the source and incentives of the forecast...
Phone calls and emails come in waves tied to worries about markets or exuberance related to investment opportunities. Recently, questions often focus...