Making a Home for the Mat-Forming Quillwort

Photo: Bethany Weeks / Pacific Southwest Region USFWS. License.

Over the past decade, our biologists, foresters and scientists have worked to create habitat for the mat-forming quillwort, a rare, at-risk plant that grows in shallow pools on granite outcrops.

Helping the endangered Georgia native is one of several examples of our conservation efforts in the state, which we often conduct in partnership with government agencies. 

For our conservation efforts, we were one of three companies honored by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal as a 2017 partner of Georgia's Forestry for Wildlife Partnership program, a public-private collaboration that promotes sustainable forestry and wildlife conservation.

Georgia has more than 24 million acres of forestland, and private landowners like Weyerhaeuser manage about 12 percent.

In addition to the quillwort, we’ve supported conservation of other at-risk species in Georgia, such as the gopher tortoise, gray bat, green salamander, whorled sunflower, Henslow’s sparrow, swallow-tailed kite, and Montane longleaf pine.