Meet Our People

This summer, seven high school students from southwest Mississippi spent four weeks inside our McComb lumber mill in Magnolia, Mississippi, earning industry certifications, exploring every department and discovering career possibilities they hadn’t considered before. ... Read More

On May 4, Jerry Goforth, saw filing manager, celebrated an impressive 50 years at our lumber mill in Philadelphia, Mississippi. ... Read More

More than 30 years ago, Torri Williams hit the ground running as a summer hire for Weyerhaeuser. Though she knew the company through her father, who was a Weyerhaeuser forester at the time, she says that first position as a summer student laid the groundwork for her career ever since. ... Read More

As an environmental science and conservation biology major at Duke University, Andrea “Andie” Kolarova did not expect to go into industrial forestry. “I was not educated about forestry in my degree program, only deforestation,” she says. “If you’d asked me after I finished undergrad, I would have said that cutting down trees was always a bad thing.” ... Read More

Michelle Metcalf didn’t initially plan to work in forestry. Growing up on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, far from any forests, she headed to college as a pharmacy major. But after connecting with people in the forestry program at the University of Montana, everything changed. ... Read More