Like other raw materials, the prices for lumber shot up to unprecedented heights last year. It wasn't just finely processed wood that was affected by this price hype, construction timber has also become significantly more expensive and, depending on the quality, could sometimes only be obtained by accepting longer waiting times.  The Austrian federal forests, which manage around 15 percent of the Austrian domestic forests (Bundesforste), have also achieved higher sales prices, but do not see themselves as winners of the price boom. The sawmill and timber industries were the primary beneficiaries of last year's hype ...