Issues Important to Weyerhaeuser

Weyerhaeuser policy teams monitor public policy issues that affect the business climate and coordinate company actions to understand and engage in public discourse. In 2008, issues of particular importance to Weyerhaeuser included:

• Taxation of timberlands in the United States
• Climate policy, including impacts on manufacturing costs and positive recognition of sequestered carbon in forests and forests products
• Energy policy, the role of biomass in including renewable energy policies and rates levied by the Bonneville Power Administration
• Green building programs, standards and recognition for the sustainable attributes of wood products
• Housing policy that helps return market stability and encourages homebuyers to re-enter the market
• Conservation of and access to the boreal forest in Canada
• Softwood lumber trade between the United States and Canada