As promised during his campaign, President Biden has focused on climate change since taking office in January, and the role that forests play in capturing carbon from the atmosphere continues to be elevated in discussions around potential solutions to the nation’s environmental challenges.
The annual tree planting survey of F&W managers finds that reforestation activity has held steady or is slightly higher than last season, which mirrors the U.S. Forest Service report that shows tree planting ticking upwards.
A year ago, we were just learning about a new disease known as COVID-19 and were in the thick of businesses and economies shutting down in an attempt to slow the spread.
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 […]