To provide a window into our proactive, innovative approach to solving pressing challenges, such as managing forest carbon, wildlife habitat and wildfire mitigation, we have put together a series called “How We Do It.” These two- to three-page reference guides provide a detailed overview of our strategy, the science and research driving it, and also answers to frequently asked questions.
The latest position paper explores our energy strategy and how we manage energy efficiency in our Wood Products business. It covers our aggressive goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, how we minimize waste in our operations, how we build energy efficiency into equipment and process design, how we pilot and deploy the latest technologies, how we gather best practices from across the industry, how we leverage public resources and set internal benchmarks, and so much more. In short, it provides the research grounding and deeper insights into how we approach important energy challenges and — as Phil Latos, director of technology and reliability, puts it — “make impossibilities possible” at our manufacturing and distribution sites.
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This latest installment is one of six “How We Do It” guides available as printable resources. If you’ve ever wondered about any of these topics, we invite you to explore them by visiting wy.com/howwedoit or clicking the links below. Plus, watch for new guides being released in 2023!
How We Do It: Energy Efficiency in Our Wood Products Business
Dive into the tactics our Wood Products teams are using to increase their energy efficiency while also lowering the carbon footprint of our operations.
Learn about our climate change mitigation practices and how our managed forests and wood products are a crucial part of carbon sequestration and storage.
How We Do It: Wildlife Habitat
Break down misperceptions that working forests can’t also be thriving ecosystems by learning how our practices protect and, in some cases, even enhance wildlife habitat.
How We Do It: Riparian Buffers
Forests supply almost 60 percent of the nation’s drinking water in addition to providing key wildlife habitat; read all about the special care we take to leave protective buffers of overstory trees around aquatic ecosystems.
Clearcutting is often misunderstood and controversial as a forestry practice, but learn how and why this method of harvesting, when done well, is both the safest and fastest way to help our forests grow back quickly.
How We Do It: Managing Forest Fires
Discover how we address fire risk as much as possible through careful management of our forests, proactive outreach and engagement with communities, and close partnerships with state and federal agencies and other forest landowners.
