Weyerhaeuser: The Best Overall Timberland Play

Andrei Metelev While land is an inherently limited resource, timber has largely been oversupplied in the U.S. due to government incentives put in place long ago encouraging farmers and other large landowners to plant forests, particularly in the South. The forests planted in these incentive programs have been reaching maturity in the last decade resulting in an oversupply of timber and consequently low timber pricing. Note the TimberMart-South data showing pine sawtimber pricing about the same as 10 yea ...