Early in my investing career, I bought shares of Crown Pacific Partners, a timberland-owning firm headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
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With the recent run-up in row-crop farmland prices, savvy investors should be looking to similar investments that offer many of the same benefits of...
The “80/20 rule” – also called the “Pareto principle” for Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto – posits that approximately 80% of your results or...
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on the rush of investors buying into publicly-traded real estate investment trusts.
How can timber REITs leverage their available capital, given the fact that they must distribute, and cannot retain, earnings?
The benefits of woodland management are no secret. Timber harvesting has long provided a means for landowners to sustainably manage their land while...
Producing a proper wood-derived biofuel follows a three-step recipe. One, grow trees. Two, break down wood from the trees into its components.
According to Forisk tracking of timberland ownership, 58 firms currently own or manage in excess of 100,000 acres of timberlands in the United States.
Major League Baseball turned to the US Forest Service to evaluate the “epidemic” of wood baseball bats breaking during baseball games.
The ability to harness forest resources for bioenergy, in its simplest form, is just a match, some kindling, and a few logs away.