Teak Awareness Day takes place on April 12 in the U.S. For over a decade, the staff at MB&G have been working on teak plantation and other forest valuations across Central America. These photos show an inspection trip a few years ago to eastern Panama to look at a client’s teak plantations. Native to Southeast Asia, for centuries teak (Tectona grandis) has been used for a wide variety of applications, from fine quality, finished indoor use to shipbuilding and utility poles. Teak’s natural rot resistance and high silica content render it one of the most durable lumbers for exterior use, while its easy workability and cultural preference also makes it valuable for high end aesthetic applications. Although widely known, Teak is still a niche product on a global scale accounting for only about 2% of total tropical roundwood production.
Read the latest Forest Sector Outlook here. As part of our partnership with the Global Consulting Alliance, MB&G helps create the Forest Sector Outlook with five other firms from around the world. This quarterly newsletter gives an economic update on the forest sector worldwide. The Forest Sector Outlook covers regional reviews for Asia-Pacific, Europe, North […]
READ MOREMB&G adopted a section of Highway 22 in 2022 to maintain as part of our established community service program. This section of Highway 22 has a particularly sentimental meaning for our team as it is where our field work started on the ODOT Hazard Debris Removal project in the Beachie Creek fire corridor in December […]
READ MOREMB&G Senior Forester Brent Keller has been assembling the News For Family Forests Newsletter every month since 2017. The newsletter includes a market watch for housing, lumber and logs as well as industry news relevant to forestland owners. Read the February newsletter here. Email marketing@masonbruce.com to subscribe
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