Meet Our People

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

Dumping hoppers are a fixture at our Panels facilities — they’re affixed to forklifts and used daily to move ash, sawdust and other materials around the site. But each time an operator dumped the hopper’s load, they had to climb out of the forklift and manually work the latch — exposing them to multiple potential hazards, that could result in slips, trips and falls or even finger amputation. ... Read More

When the manager of Cindy Rucker’s log team retired, they didn’t just leave a vacancy. They left a team of 18 people in varying states of transition — some brand new, some reassigned to different regions, some stepping into leadership roles for the first time. Overnight, a system that had worked well for years stopped working. ... Read More