Recently, I’ve been meditating on the strengths and weaknesses of intensively managed plantations. I understand firsthand the incredible efficiency of plantation forestry to produce wood fiber; I worked nearly a decade in some of theContinue reading
Category: Science
What Do We Know About Global Forest Investments and Their Returns?
In this short article, I discuss the main characteristics of global forest investments together with their expected returns. The article is based on a recently published paper by Professor Frederick Cubbage (College of Natural Resources atContinue reading
Are ash trees doomed?
Ash trees have been part of North American and European forest landscapes for millennia. Yet, they are now under threats because of invasive pests and pathogens such as the ash dieback in Europe and theContinue reading
Is it worth to invest in forestland in Croatia?
Recently a group of forest and economic researchers analyzed investment potentials of almost all private forests at national level in the Republic of Croatia. The financial analyses showed which forest types have positive investment potentialContinue reading
Professional Insight: What do we know about global roundwood markets? – an interview with Robert W. Hagler of New Forests
This time Robert W. Hagler (formerly of ForestEdge, now with New Forests) – the co-author of recently published scientific article on cointegration analysis of international roundwood prices shares the main findings of his research alongContinue reading
Why should foresters recognize trees species? How to develop this skill?
Remember studying all these lab taxonomy classes, Being overwhelmed with all theses long Latin names and confusing etymology? Asking yourself am I ever going to use this in my life? How to use this thickContinue reading
Professional Insight: An Interview with Professor Frederick Cubbage of North Carolina State University
An international group of researchers estimated timber investment returns for 22 countries and 54 species/management regimes. Returns were estimated for the principal plantation countries in the Americas—Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Mexico, andContinue reading
Giant tree hunting and old-growth forest conservation in Vancouver Island
Temperate rainforests are magical ecosystems. In them trees grow tall, big, massive. It is not a coincidence that the tallest trees found on Earth are found in temperate rainforests, from the Coast Redwoods in California,Continue reading
Seeing and managing forests as functional complex networks – an interview with Christian Messier
In September 2017 I participated to a very dynamic field-week that took place in Tuscany, Italy. Here international students had the chance to discuss new concepts in forest management, such as viewing forest ecosystems asContinue reading
New biofuel plant will have only minor effects on existing forest industries and harvests in Norway
A new publication from researchers from Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and University of Idaho has shown that a new biofuel plant Silva Green located in Tofte will have only a minor effect on existing forest industries and harvests in Norway.