Planet

Weyerhaeuser owns and manages forests that provide important habitat for a number of threatened or endangered species. In Southwest Oregon, we are helping to create dispersal habitat for northern spotted owls on our Coos Bay Tree Farm.

In 2011, we spent $21.5 million on forestry research topics including forest health and productivity, water quality, fish and wildlife, landscape management, and biodiversity. This year, we are participating in a number of research partnerships, including partnering with the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance to study the feasibility of producing jet biofuel from woody feedstocks in the Pacific Northwest.

Ensuring our products are sustainable is core to our business. In 2011, we adopted a Product Stewardship Policy and implementation toolkit that integrates environmental, health and safety considerations into all of our products, from product design to end of life.

We are leaders in green homebuilding. Pardee Homes, one of our homebuilding companies, opened the newest community in its series of LivingSmart Homes, featuring its most advanced green technologies. This community qualified for the National Green Building Standard Gold level, the first neighborhood in Southern California to receive this distinction.

We know that energy conservation, cost savings, and environmental improvements go hand in hand. In 2011, our NORPAC joint venture, which produces newsprint and premium uncoated paper grades for publishers, was one of six finalists for the Pulp and Paper International Environmental Strategy Awards Mill Category for their TMP Heat Recovery Project.