No one was expecting such a year when it began on Jan. 1, 2020, and much happened that caught everyone off guard, but there were a few positive surprises amid the wild ride, which F&W President Marshall Thomas discusses in the new edition of his company’s newsletter. “Housing starts hit 1.547 million units (annualized) in […]
When Joe Biden takes office in January, one of his top priorities will be climate change, which is likely to have a huge impact on forest policies. On day one, Mr. Biden said he would take steps to have the U.S. rejoin the Paris Climate Accord. He also plans to invest in green infrastructure, buildings, […]
A new international study examining 12 years of data on Southeastern timberlands found that the wood pellet industry has had a net positive effect on American forests. Since the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive went into effect 11 years ago, demand for wood pellets from the U.S. has skyrocketed, with more than a third of the […]
While lumber prices were reaching record highs earlier this year, the abundant supply of pine sawtimber trees across the South kept prices paid to forest landowners for their trees level.
It seems the spike in lumber prices over the summer and early fall would have had a positive impact on timber stumpage prices paid to landowners for large pine sawtimber, but the correlation is not there, explains Marshall Thomas, president of F&W Forestry Services, in his company’s fall newsletter. While sawmills cut back production at […]
The severe natural disasters devastating timberlands over the past few years have drawn attention to a huge flaw in our nation’s tax laws and the Forest Recovery Act aims to fix it. Currently, landowners whose timber stands are destroyed by a natural disaster are dealt an unintended blow because they can only deduct the lesser […]
This year’s tree planting season was almost upended, but swift and coordinated advocacy efforts by forestry associations made certain that it will continue unabated after the Trump administration issued exemptions following their appeals. President Trump signed a series of proclamations this spring, suspending entry of most temporary seasonal workers into this country for the remainder […]
Registration for the Florida Timber Recovery Block Grant Program is now open for landowners whose forestland in Florida sustained damage from Hurricane Michael.
The state of Florida has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on the distribution of $380.7 million in block grant funding to Florida timber growers for the damage caused by Hurricane Michael.
It is too soon to know the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the forest products sector, but data is beginning to reveal mixed results.