Corporate Partnerships - Corporate Partnership Profile: Weyerhaeuser

Weyerhaeuser and The Nature Conservancy

Willapa Bay Area Tree Farm, Washington State.
© Dave Putnam and Gary Darby

About this partnership:

Weyerhaeuser and The Nature Conservancy have worked together over the last 30 years to study the ecological value of America’s forests. The goal of this partnership is to learn more about biological diversity in managed forests and to improve the conservation of these special places on Weyerhaeuser forestland.

In 2006, Weyerhaeuser committed $1 million over five years to The Nature Conservancy to support a range of forest conservation and biodiversity research activities. Two major projects are currently being funded to assess forest biodiversity in both the Northwest and the Southeast, regions in which Weyerhaeuser owns or leases 6.4 million acres of managed forests. In Arkansas, biodiversity levels are being tracked in a multi-year study of an intensively managed pine forest in a rare blackland prairie and savanna landscape of the Upper West Gulf Coastal Plain Ecoregion. In Washington, a study of biodiversity within both old-growth and managed forests is taking place in the Willapa Hills at the Ellsworth Creek Preserve. Both projects will increase understanding of how forestry practices influence biodiversity and will help to shape future forest conservation initiatives.

About Weyerhaeuser:

Weyerhaeuser Company, one of the world’s largest integrated forest products companies, was incorporated in 1900. It has offices or operations in 18 countries, with customers worldwide.

The company believes forest management should be based on sound science and that sustainably managed commercial forests are part of the solution to sustaining forests globally. By using those forests suitable to meet society’s need for wood and paper products, Weyerhaeuser aims to relieve the pressure on other forests more suitable for conservation based on their ecological, cultural, and social values.

Weyerhaeuser is principally engaged in the growing and harvesting of timber; the manufacture, distribution and sale of forest products; and real estate construction, development and related activities. All of the company’s U.S. forests are certified under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® standard, a comprehensive system of principles, objectives and performance measures that combines the perpetual growing and harvesting of trees with long-term protection of wildlife, plants, soil and water quality.

The Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation works to improve the quality of life in communities where Weyerhaeuser has a presence and increase understanding of the importance and sustainability of forests and products. Begun in 1948, the foundation has contributed more than $183 million to nonprofit organizations.