Is this a good investment?

mathmom
Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:24:00 +0000

I have a soft spot for trees, but you can’t count on them. My grandfather and a bunch of his friends bought an old lumber forest and built some camps on it. We maintain a sustainable forest business to pay the taxes. Most years we do pretty well, but some years we lose a lot because of the ups and downs of the market, ice storms, too much warm weather (which makes lumbering difficult). Still trees are good for the environment and eventually should be worth something.