Lumber futures Monday rose to their highest point since August 2022, when wood prices were plunging from their pandemic peak, in a sign that it could get a lot more expensive to build a house or a ...

When America is building, the lumber industry benefits, and Weyerhaeuser, Rayonier, and Potlatch are some of its biggest players. Weyerhaeuser is the largest forestland owner in the United States.

The unprecedented conditions of the coronavirus pandemic had some equally unprecedented economic effects, including some unusual shortages in the economy. For a large chunk of 2020, there was a ...