Forestry: Numbers Solid, Depending on Market
October 10, 2022
By Mark R. Smith, Contributing Writer
Right up front, Jerry Tugwell makes a point that he and other forestry industry executives feel needs to be made.
Tugwell is president of Tugwell Consulting Forestry, in Asheboro, N.C. He makes his living managing timberland for private landowners, then conducts sales on their behalf to sawmills and other buyers. And he knows that the lumber markets in various regions of the U.S. are all different, thus have different results.
“All of the markets are specific to geography, so there is variance in thei...
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