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Two Lake States Paper Machines to Restart in 2025
Read About ND Paper Mills Set up for a 2025 Comeback...
Wisconsin Forestry Report Calls for Strategic Overhaul
Read How Forestry Tops Economy in 18 Counties, Report Finds...
Major Forest Fires in Northern Minnesota Prompt State Emergency Declaration
Read About the Thousands of Acres Burning in Minnesota...
Michigan DNR Issues Guidance on Timber Sales Affected by Severe Storm
Read about the Michigan DNR Launching an Ice Storm Timber Recovery Plan...
Green Timber Consulting named stewardship foresters of 2025
Read this Michigan Department of Natural Resources Daily Digest...
BREAKING NEWS: Extreme Fire Danger Monday, May 12, 2025
Check out this Red Flag Warning Issued For 21 Northern Wisconsin Counties By the Wisconsin DNR...
Biron Mill Restart Marks Recovery Step for Wisconsin Rapids Region
Read about the Reopening of a Machine at Biron Mill to Boost Recycled Paper Production...
Michigan Forests Outperform Wisconsin and Minnesota in Q1 2025 Logging
Read about the Lake States Timber Markets...
Michigan Begins Recovery From Massive Ice Storm
Read about Michigan Legislature Proposing $75M for Storm Recovery After Historic Ice Storms...
New Bill Seeks Safer, More Efficient Routes for Logging Trucks
Read About How Legislation Would Let Log Trucks Use Interstates to Avoid Towns and Schools...
Microsoft Backs $800M Bioenergy Carbon Capture Project in Louisiana
Read About a New Bioenergy Plant to Capture 680,000 Tons of Carbon Annually, Backed by Microsoft...
High Fire Danger - April 2025
Read this notice from the Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association...
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Forest Data Network is composed of a group of people with backgrounds in forest land ownership, the information business, and technology. We compile and analyze real timber transactions to deliver price indices by species, region, and statewide.
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Domestic Market Dynamics
Stories on the latest market changes affecting wood prices
Infestation
Insect, fungi and parasitic infestations can result in destruction of various tree species
Pulpwood
Pulpwood pricing has been especially challenged over the past few years
Logs
Logs are often the most common way that forestowners measure the value of their standing stumpage
Mills
We survey and interview a number of regional mills to get the latest information
Hardwood
Hardwood is used in many applications, including furniture, musical instruments, flooring and many others
Alternative Market Uses
Mass timber, plastic straws, skyscrapers are some of the alternative uses we explore
Wisconsin
Stories focused on Wisconsin's timber industry
Michigan
Stories focused on Michigan's timber industry