Based on these tremendous shifts in the market, I wanted to draft an update of our most popular blog postever(How Much Money is an Acre of Timber Worth?) to provide some revised trends, context, and related information about the value of pine timber per acre. Since we’re talking dollars...
Even for the largest mass-timber buildings, North America’s vast forests can regrow the equivalent amount of wood in just a few minutes. Although wood’s ability to sequester carbon is well understood, it’s also important to recognize that mass timber takes much less energy (and fewer carbo...
The central part of western Europe contains a large block of densely settled, industrially developed countries with similar timber requirements and growing conditions. Here, self-sufficiency in industrial wood appears to depend on a forested area of at least two-thirds acre per capita. These ...
The good news is that hemp can be used to replace wood products, considering that hemp can produce four times as much paper per acre than trees. Additionally, hemp has a short growth cycle of 12 to 14 weeks, making it a highly maintainable crop.Paper and manufacturing industries can turn ...
Planting forests on your property is an excellent long-term investment. It will take years for the trees to grow, often 25 years or more, but the profits are enormous, and they don’t take much day-to-day work. Many farmers use this method to set themselves up for retirement or legacy...
this wasn’t always the case.Up until this year, BLM required just a $10,000 bond per lease and a $25,000 bond for statewide coverage, even though the actual cleanup costsper wellare much, much higher. That oversight left companies like Chesapeake Energy, “$2 billion short on bonds fo...
“the forest service is not burning nearly as much as it should if you want to restore these oak-pine systems,” nowacki says. many factors hinder getting more flames on the ground. in most of the us, fire is regulated by a complex bureaucracy whose top responsibility is to prevent loss...
Incidentally, I hope your arbor is made of strong, thick timber: wisteria’s anacondalike stems have brought down many a finely wrought Victorian porch and gazebo. Americans seem to have a strong distrust of vines; we grow them much less than other garden plants. It probably comes from a ...
How much money can Texans save with a rural land use exemption? Property taxes are reduced to a mere $3 to $5 per-acre per-year with an agricultural exemption, Stout says. A timber exemption reduces property taxes to $5 to $6 per-acre per-year. That’s a big deal in a state with...
Logging and forest thinning cannot possibly harm a watershed as much as parched forests burning down to the soil, wiping out everything. Expand the Biomass Power Industry If removing trees with timber operations is essential to return California’s forests to a sustainable, lower density of trees...