With all the changes in the timber industry, it is anyone's guess what the future will hold, Jones said. Predictions, however, call for increased demands for wood products with the world population booming, increased housing and more use of paper for computer products, but no one really knows how those predictions will shake out with other factors in the globalized, competitive timber market. You hope it will pick up. The past 10 years have been very good for timber. We may be in year seven of a 10-year stretch.
Timber is a long-term proposition.