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If you want to invest in electronics, you can buy shares in Microsoft, Intel, or Cisco Systems, and millions of other investors will help you evaluate your investment every minute the markets are open.  Investors in timberland are not so lucky.  Every tract of land in SE U.S. is unique, and it changes every year as trees grow and markets change.  On the other hand, it’s hard to make big profits quickly in the stock market with so many competitors.  You needn’t worry about so many market competitors in timberland, but you do need information to evaluate what you own and decide what to do with it.

We think that JMV&CO foresters are some of the best in the business so far as growth and sale of trees are concerned, but our operating area doesn’t cover all of SE U.S.  Furthermore, we don’t buy timber of any kind, and we don’t monitor all conditions in the world of investments.  Therefore, we are pleased to make available to users of www.vardaman.com and www.se-timbersales.com the following persons with useful skills:

Type AL AR FL GA LA MS NC OK SC TN TX VA Other Total
Timberbuyer 116 53 33 118 52 155 42 0 45 16 46 18 37 731
Landowner 306 142 150 460 187 400 120 13 140 60 245 58 210 2491
Investor 78 48 57 135 60 132 31 1 37 13 52 18 71 733
Forestry Advisor 51 33 31 91 35 92 33 2 32 12 34 25 35 506
Sales Agent 25 9 17 33 8 36 11 0 10 7 9 8 14 187
Not Specified 13 6 6 17 8 12 7 0 2 6 5 3 21 21
Total 589 291 294 854 350 827 244 16 266 114 391 130 343 -

These persons completed the registration form required to examine details of tracts offered on www.se-timbersales.com.  Each classified himself according to occupations listed in the left-hand column, and some made more than one choice.  Most of those listed under “Other” are residents of other U. S. other states, but Chile, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, India, and Uzbekistan are represented.  The vast majority of them included their e-mail addresses, so they get the Friday Reports just as you do.

The easiest way to get in touch with them is to post your questions on the Discussion Forum.  Each week it is always the first or second in popularity among unique visitors to www.vardaman.com, and important, well-phrased questions usually evoke several answers.

Phrasing of questions is important when the answers require professional opinions from lawyers and CPA’s.  We believe that answering them in the forum would violate codes of ethics in their professions, and this would certainly make their expertise available free of charge.  Phrase your question so that reference to a publication will provide the answer.

Those who answer questions will also do well to cite published documents.  Otherwise, proper answers to some questions may require an hour of work and two written pages and still not be complete.  If we can locate the publication, we’ll add a link that will permit access to it with one mouse click.

Finally, we ask for help from all of you who visit our sites.  Tell us about helpful articles or studies that can be cited without permission, and we’ll post them immediately.  We subscribe to and read about 40 weekly or monthly publications, but would have missed the important articles by Keville Larson and Jon Caulfield if you hadn’t told us about them.  As Freeman Dyson said in the heading of the Discussion Forum, “Science is a very gregarious business.  You want to be, all the time, talking with people because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.”