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Shauna Dunn is a safety champion. It’s her job. As an advocate for achieving sustained injury-free performance, she lives and breathes our safety value. Just as important, she works hard every day inspiring others to do the same.
For the past three years, forester Sierra Barfield has hand-selected the Christmas trees Weyerhaeuser donates to the city of Albany, Ore., for its annual Albany Downtown Christmas celebration. After scouting all year, Sierra chose a majestic 30-foot-tall Douglas-fir from our Snow Peak tree farm for this year's celebration. The tree will be decorated and lit this weekend following the Downtown Twice Around Christmas Parade & Tree Lighting on Sunday, Dec. 4. Learn more from the Corvallis Gazette-Times's photographer Andy Cripe, who joined us this week to follow along as we cut and delivered the tree into town!
Environmental groups and the timber industry are often painted as bitter adversaries. But the passage of the Private Forest Accord in Oregon earlier this year is a great example of how these groups can work together for the benefit of all. On May 18, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed the Private Forest Accord, a historic agreement that resulted in the most comprehensive changes to Oregon’s forestry regulations in decades. Now, a new state-wide awareness campaign called “For the Trees” celebrates this important moment while working to increase the general public’s awareness and understanding of today’s modern timber industry. Launched this summer by the Oregon Forest Industries Council, the campaign even features a few of Weyerhaeuser's own employees!
We had a great time hosting KGW-TV at our Turner seed orchard last week. Anya Hall did a fantastic job sharing how our millions of seedlings bring Christmas cheer to homes here in Oregon and across the country.
Meet our People: Laura Six, a forest ecologist in our environmental research group in Centralia, Washington, has a long family history in the forestry industry. Her great-grandfather was a logger. Her great-uncles and uncles worked in forest products. Her grandfather was a contractor who helped build the old Weyerhaeuser corporate headquarters in Federal Way, Washington. And her father was a production forestry researcher for Weyerhaeuser. "Even if someone grew up with forestry in their family, like I did, it doesn’t mean they understand the full spectrum of what we do or know about all the different careers in our industry," she says. "I’m always wondering who's next in line, who's coming in to carry on our work, especially in rural areas like mine. We need to reach those successors, to make sure they know what we do, that we're here, that our industry has all these great opportunities."
We are pleased to share that our Carbon Record has been recognized with a “Sustainability Initiative of the Year” award by Business Intelligence Group as part of its 2022 Sustainability Awards program. The awards honor companies, people and teams who have made sustainability an integral part of their business practices or overall mission. Released earlier this year, our inaugural Carbon Record provides a comprehensive look at our yearly carbon emissions, removals, storage and future goals for reducing emissions across our value chain. And it captures the powerful contribution that sustainable working forests and wood products make as a natural climate solution! #sustainability
Starting this month, Weyerhaeuser is converting 11 acres of land along Oregon’s Coos River into critical fish habitat. The land — until 1989 used as a staging area for logs being floated down the river — is located where saltwater from Coos Bay meets freshwater from two nearby rivers. It’s ideal habitat for young migratory fish before they leave freshwater rivers for the ocean, and Jason Richardson, region engineering lead for Timberlands based in Coos Bay, recognized the land’s potential when he began work to address a failing tide gate. “This is a unique piece of property,” he says. “Since we already needed to do work on it, I realized it would be a shame if we didn’t think about how to also improve it somehow for fish.”
Meet our People: Ron Crear is Weyerhaeuser's Evangelist for Inclusion & Fairness Learn how our Director of #Diversity, #Equity and #Inclusion advocates for and strengthens our company’s inclusive culture. #VALUES #INTEGRITY #INNOVATION #GREATPLACETOWORK #PEOPLE
After a two-year pandemic pause, we are excited to announce the reopening of our Forest Learning Center, located just outside the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. The recently updated center, which is free and open to the public seven days a week through Oct. 3, tells the story of the 1980 eruption, our replanting efforts in the aftermath, and sustainable forestry more broadly. Highlights include an eruption chamber and a number of kid-focused features, including a volcano slide, forest management video game, hands-on exhibits and much more.
This Saturday, July 23, our OSB mill in Grayling, Mich., is celebrating its 40th anniversary! To mark the milestone, the mill is hosting an open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and community members are invited to come enjoy mill trolley tours, lunch and refreshments, and other family fun. If you’re in the area, we hope you can join the celebration!
