Srijana Baral

Colorado State University | CSU · Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship

Changes in tax codes applicable to timberland investments can affect tax treatment of timber revenues and expenses. The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is regarded as the most expansive overhaul of tax codes in the United States since 1986; however, our understanding of its effects on timberland investments for family forest owners has yet to be...

Timber real estate investment trusts (REITs) are companies that own and manage timberland and generate revenue by harvesting and selling timber or other forest-related products. Due to their popularity with investors, timber REITs in the United States attracted growing research interest in the recent decades. This necessitates a review of existing...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the return sensitivity of public farmland and timberland real estate investment trusts (REITs) to private-equity farmland, timberland and real estate, long-term corporate bonds and large- and small-cap stocks. The study also examines time-dependent contributions of selected asset classes to farmland...

We examined the relationship between public timber real estate investment trusts (REIT), private timberland, real estate, and financial asset returns using a multi-factor model and investigated the time-varying volatility of timber REITs under the state space framework. We first orthogonalized explanatory variables to obtain pure factors. Then we d...

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is one of the most expansive federal tax legislations of the US. Effects of recently passed tax bill and other proposals on non-corporate private forest landowners have not been evaluated or understood yet. Using the Faustmann approach, this study evaluated and compared net financial benefit of managing timberland und...

Secondary transportation of raw and comminuted forest products is a major component in forest harvesting operations in terms of economics, public perception, and safety. Consequently, there is a substantial amount of literature on this topic. The existing literature has dealt with many of the technical aspects of transportation with a majority of t...

Secondary transportation of raw and comminuted forest products is a major component in forest harvesting operations in terms of economics, public perception, and safety. Consequently, there is a substantial amount of literature on this topic. The existing literature has dealt with many of the technical aspects of transportation with a majority of t...

Forests have played a vital role in the socio-economic development of Nepal with their productive, protective, and bio-esthetic functions. Stand height-diameter as well as volume estimation is very critical in forest management. This research modeled height-diameter relationship as well as tree volume for Teak (Tectona grandis), a well-known tropic...