This book distills forest finance themes and questions into a question-and-answer format for those who want an accessible reference or introduction to forest management and timberland investment decision-making. This includes forestry consultants and investment analysts, timberland owners and investors, and anyone else who needs to understand the identification, valuation, and ranking of timber-dependent and forest-related investments. This handbook succinctly helps readers do the following: Identify and communicate key financial issues for a given forestry or timberland investment; differentiate and explain the pros and cons of traditional approaches to financial analysis; and analyze and value timber and timberland investments.

Forest Finance Simplified distills forest finance themes into a question-and-answer format for those who want an accessible reference or introduction to forest management decision-making and timber investments. This handbook succinctly helps readers do the following: Identify and communicate key financial issues for a given forestry or timberland investment; Differentiate and explain the pros and cons of traditional approaches to financial analysis; Analyze, rank and benchmark the value and performance of forest management activities and timberland investments; Avoid common errors associated with forest investment decisions. The 6th Edition includes additional content on comparing timberland investment vehicles, benchmarking timberland investment performance, making forest management decisions, and evaluating the use of leverage for timber investments.

Common stock. Corporate bonds. Stock mutual funds. Call and put options. Commercial and residential real estate. Municipal bonds. These and others are the alternatives many individual and institutional investors consider when constructing their investment portfolios. This is the first book to investigate how another investment alternative--timberland--can fit into the portfolios of individuals and such institutions as pension funds. Timberland supplies the basic raw material for a critical global industry--forest products. Timber can be managed economically as a renewable crop on hundreds of millions of acres in the United States. Given the forces supporting conservation of forests in their natural state on many public and some private lands in the Unites States and other nations, there is increasing pressure on the remaining privately owned forests to supply the needed timber output. This represents an opportunity for patient, long-term investors. Using insights and graphic examples supplied by experienced institutional investors, professional foresters, forestry and financial researchers, and others, the authors address such questions as the following: How do timberland's investment characteristics compare to those associated with other portfolio alternatives? In addition to direct investments in forests, in what other ways can investors participate in the timberland market? Can the addition of timberland to some investors' diversified portfolios improve overall performance? What personal financial planning goals can be served by timberland? What acquisition, forest management, and sale strategies can be adopted by individual and institutional investors so that objectives are better achieved? In the course of addressing such questions, the authors attempt to bridge the communications gap between the investment and forestry communities. The authors provide valuable perspectives not only for individual and institutional investors, but also for personal financial advisors; forestry practitioners, policymakers and researchers; and students of forestry, real estate, and investments.

Forest Resource Economics and Finance is intended for undergraduate forestry students, but practicing foresters and policy analysts will also find it a useful reference. The text emphasizes economics as a way of thinking in which we compare added costs and benefits of actions in order to maximize net benefits. With the basics of capital theory, readers learn how to evaluate forestry investments in a way that embraces important environmental factors. Another key feature is a focus on analyzing current conflicts and tradeoffs that will continue to be prominent forestry issues in the 21st century: free market policies versus different levels of government intervention, economic development versus environmental conservation, private property rights versus public amenity rights, and timber versus non-timber outputs. This text also addresses additional topics not often found in other forest economic books including: economics of non-clearcutting management systems, economics of forest damage, risk analysis, inflation, environmental economics, capital budgeting, and regional economics. Add to this a micro-economics review, multiple-use and non-market good analysis, optimal capital management, benefit/cost analysis, timber supply and demand issues, appraisal and valuation, forest industry economics, and world forestry issues, and you have the most comprehensive forest economics text on the market. In addition to new and updated figures throughout the text, this newly-revised second edition provides an overview of important trends in the modern timber industry including advancements in engineered wood, international trade, global environmental issues, as well as community forestry and agroforestry.

Excerpt from Forest Valuation The term Forest Valuation, applied to this volume, covers only a portion of the subject of Forest Finance, which is usually separated into two parts, termed, respectively, Valuation and Statics. Valuation deals with the determination of the value of standing timber, both mature and immature, and of forest soil, and the forest as a whole. Forest Statics deals with the comparison of financial results obtained in forestry with those yielded by other enterprises, and compares the relative merits of different methods of treating the forest. This subject is discussed in Chapter VIII. Since Forest Valuation includes the greater portion of the text, and this term is more familiar to American foresters, it has been adopted as the title, in place of the more comprehensive term. Forest Finance. The literature of Forest Finance is largely of German origin, and has been developed in the latter half of the nineteenth century, by numerous German and French authorities. The standard English text is found in "Forest Management," by Sir William Schlich, Vol. III, Part II, Forest Valuation. This author follows the continental treatment of the subject. In 1909, a pamphlet on "Forest Finance" was published by C. A. Schenck, Ph.D., Forester to the Biltmore estate,! which gives a synopsis or outline of a series of lectures on the subject. Dr. Schencks treatment is thoroughly American and contains valuable suggestions for the advanced student of Forest Finance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.