Investing in Timber

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We got in the arguments about the per unit returns as posted by the TATF web site.

In forestry analysys the reserach is done by hectar.
We were sold a simplistic metric, that no one uses, and our eagernes and ignorance took the best of us with the rosy projections.

So the questions To Mr.Brunner is what are the data points and metrics per hectar.

We can compare that information with studies done about Costa Rica plantations from the Univeristy of Helsinki, Profesor Centeno In the case of Flora Y Fauna, or the Center for International Forestry Research, or the USDA with the University of Hunstville in Alabma.

http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/Publications/Detail?pid=1727

http://info.frim.gov.my/cfdocs/infocenter/Korporat/2003Publications/Links/JTFS%2020(1)/08%20D.%20Perez.pdf

http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/oct102002/808.pdf

Although an earlier study the data is still relevant with the colaboration of USDA Forestry expert G.Sam Foster:

http://www.sl.ku.dk/dfsc/pdf/Publications/Economics.pdf