sustainability

It’s not every day that a routine inventory cruise uncovers something that changes our scientific understanding of a plant’s distribution in the Pacific Northwest. But that’s exactly what happened last spring on our Vail tree farm in Washington when a timber cruiser with Olympic Forestry spied a small purple flower that looked unique enough to report. ... Read More

When our OSB mill in Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan, faced the challenge of disposing of two years’ worth of ash, the team developed a solution inspired by similar work at our OSB mill in Edson, Alberta, seven years earlier, when Edson had successfully supplied local farmers with ash as an agricultural additive to neutralize acidic soil. ... Read More

In Raymond, Washington, where we’ve operated a lumber mill since the 1930s and owned timberland in the surrounding Willapa Hills for even longer, finding a home can be more of a challenge than buying one. ... Read More

When a logging truck rumbles down a gravel road in our Oregon timberlands, it usually burns diesel — a reliable but carbon-intensive fuel. That’s beginning to change. This summer, our first fleet of renewable natural gas (RNG) trucks started rolling out of Goshen, Oregon, marking a new chapter in Weyerhaeuser’s longstanding exploration of alternative fuels. ... Read More

There’s no telling what someone might find on our millions of acres of timberlands. From vital wildlife habitats to historic and culturally significant sites, there’s a little of everything. We’ve been cataloging and protecting these areas for decades, and we’re still making discoveries. ... Read More