Timberland Strategies LLC

Providing Technical Assistance to Timberland Investors, Managers and Analysts

Investment Analysis

• Understanding the timberland valuation process
• Understanding the differences between valuing timberland and the stock of public timberland companies
• Estimating the timberland value per share of publicly traded timberland companies
• Tax structures of the timber REITS versus C Corporation structure
• Understanding the differences between owning timberland and owning stock in timberland companies
• Telephone consultations

Direct Investment in Timberland

• Assistance with buying or selling timberland
• Assistance in obtaining and interpreting appraisals from consulting forestry organizations
• Assistance with selling through auctions, sealed bids, realtors and direct negotiation

Timberland Acquisition Support

• For large, institutional acquisitions
• FIA data analysis for tracts 100,000 acres or more
• GIS analysis of demographic data for both present and future HBU detection
• Analysis of seller provided GIS and timber inventory data
• For smaller, retail acquisitions
• Work with consulting foresters/realtors to locate available options
• Screen options, provide assistance obtaining and interpreting appraisals
• Mapping, imagery and GIS services

Resource Surveys and Analysis

• Timber Inventory and GIS integration design
• Forest inventory and spacial accuracy analysis
• Wood Basket analyses by timbershed
• Growth and drain analysis
• GIS analysis and mapping
  • Integration of different data into a coherent geodatabase
  • Overlay analysis of any of the data sets with imagery
• Consumption analysis: Pulp mills, sawmills, OSB plants, biomass plants
• Demographic influences
• Support for sustainable forestry objectives
  • ecological classification
  • habitat analyses and endangered species modeling
  • site quality modeling
• Acquisition of digital aerial photography and high-resolution satellite imagery
• Data extraction from imagery for forest type mapping, damage assessments and wood supply analyses

Woody Biomass Resource Analysis

• What is the availability of primary mill residues in your procurement area? Is there any available?
• How much logging residue is available?
• Residual Biomass Calculators customized by forest type and age-class specific to your wood basket
• Cost analysis: mill residues vs. harvest residue vs. pulpwood
• Energy Balance Comparisons by Pulp Mill

Carbon Inventory, Modeling and Credits

• Estimation of carbon storage in forest stands
  
• Projections of carbon balances based on management strategies
• Assistance in designing carbon inventory and monitoring protocols
• Carbon sequestration and climate change
  

Timberland Transaction Database

• Year, acres, transaction price, region, state
• Trend analysis
• Comparable sales
• Regional values

Timberland Damage Assessments

• Hurricane, ice storms, fire
• Image acquisition and analyses
• Ground control utilizing local/regional consulting foresters

Auditing/Verification of Harvesting and Silvicultural Activities

• Anywhere in the world employing imagery and GIS datasets
• Evaluate compliance with any sustainability requirements, BMPs, certification schemes
• Utilization of local consulting foresters for ground control

Timber & Timberland Security activities

• Timber & Timberland Security Audits
• Timber Trespass Investigations
• Covert Video Surveillance
• Scalehouse, Woodyard & Logger Risk Assessments
• Incident Investigation
• Security Training & Presentations
• Security Policy Review
• "Boots-on-the Ground" Investigations Globally