The purpose of this paper is develop an industry-level (average) estimate of annual investment returns from industrial planted forests in New Zealand, from publicly-available financial statement data. The research used data from seven New Zealand commercial forest-growing companies, for the period...

Early 20th century afforestation boom New Zealand saw an afforestation boom in the 1920s and 1930s with the establishment of around 288,000 ha of plantation forests. An old photo collection that I have acquired through Scion and others sources shows what life was like then in new forests around...

As a long-term investment, timberland investments offer financial benefits including portfolio diversification, attractive risk/return profile, an inflation hedge, and the potential of cash flow. Based on interviews with experts regarding ranges of input parameters used in single-hectare financial...

Restructuring has been recommended as an approach for improving forestry supply chain efficiency. In-forest debarking (IFD), as opposed to debarking at mills or ports, is an example of supply chain restructuring. No debarker head capable of pine IFD is currently available. The aims of the research...

Entrepreneurs seeking investment opportunities in the forest sector have few alternatives to determine the performance of the forest plantation, the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is mostly used. Most of the empirical studies on forest assets where the economic returns was estimated through the ...

There is increasing pressure to raise yields from intensively managed forests in order to improve profitability and to provide for future expected demand for wood products. Deployment of genetically improved tree stocks and control of tree spacing are two means by which forest managers can...

This paper compares economic returns from existing pastoral production with plantation forestry on steep Northland hill country, to help inform decisions on land use change. The economic analysis specifically targets high erosion risk pastoral land and appraises two plantation forest options -...

This paper represents the first analysis of forest plantation investments on a comparative perspective in the context of Southwestern Europe. We estimated and compared potential investment returns at aggregate level for some of the most important productive forest plantation species in the region,...

Plantation forests provide benefits beyond timber. However, these non-timber benefits (avoided erosion, avoided nutrient leaching) do not have market values and are often overlooked in decision-making. This study describes a spatial economic assessment of the timber and non-timber values of...

Treated biosolids have been applied to 750-ha of a Pinus radiata forest plantation on Rabbit Island near Nelson City in New Zealand since 1996. A long-term research trial was established in 1997 to investigate the effects of the biosolids applications on the receiving environment and tree growth....