Weyerhaeuser:
Old-Growth Forest Destroyer
Logging, distributing and selling old growth and endangered forest
products is a barbaric, outdated practice that has entered its
endgame in the American marketplace. More than 400 global companies
have already dissociated their businesses from endangered forest
destruction, including American forest products company Boise
Cascade.
Yet Weyerhaeuser, a U.S. forestry giant that
claims to be an environmental leader, remains North America’s
top logger and distributor of forest products from old growth
and endangered forests. Clearly, Weyerhaeuser is on the wrong
side of history.
Unlike other leading businesses, Weyerhaeuser
ignores the demands its customers and refuses to respond to the
crisis facing the world’s forests.
Read
Rainforest Action Network's letter to Weyerhaeuser.
A Global Giant
Weyerhaeuser is truly a global giant with timber
operations or offices in 44 states, Canada and 18 other nations.
It imports timber products from endangered rainforest hotspots
in Malaysia, Chile, and Brazil. It is one of the world’s
largest forest producers and distributors of forest products and
is one of the largest private owners of merchantable softwood
timberlands.
In North America, Weyerhaeuser is one of the
top distributors of wood products.
Weyerhaeuser owns over seven million acres
of land in the U.S., and owns or holds logging rights to more
than 35 million acres of land in Canada. Weyerhaeuser has diversified
widely beyond its roots in lumber and wood products, and today
controls a vast network of over 100 subsidiaries in fields including
construction, real estate sales and development (often on its
cutover lands), financial services and information systems consulting.
Greenwash Alert: Weyerhaeuser works
to protect its image, not forests.
Weyerhaeuser needs to catch up with modern
values and fundamentally change its business practices. Rainforest
Action Network demands that Weyerhaeuser take the following steps
immediately:
- Phase out all logging and procurement of
wood products from endangered forests globally
- Cease conversion of native forests to plantations
- Commit to not use or experiment with genetically
modified trees
- Stop logging on U.S. public lands
- Pursue Forest Stewardship Council certification
for forestry operations
What Can You Do?
Take action today! We've secured environmental
commitments from the world's largest corporations before and we're
doing it again! RAN will campaign against Weyerhaeuser until it
stops trafficking in old growth products. In the grand tradition
of American patriots, suffragists and activists, RAN utilizes
education, non-violent direct action, and grassroots organizing
to transform the global marketplace and save natural habitats,
livelihoods and lives.
We want to work with you!
To protect the forests and all that depend on them–please
take online action today. Or, contact the grassroots team at grassroots@ran.org
or 415-398-4404 for more information.
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle
We can all protect forest ecosystems by reducing
the demand for forest products. Purchase products that have 100
percent recycled paper content or are produced using alternative
fibers, such as agricultural residue. Actively reduce consumption
of tree-based products, such as paper, wood and paper bags, and
convince others to do the same. For more information about how
to campaign in to get your community to reduce, reuse and recycle,
please go to the Smart
Paper Campaign.
Speak Out!
Write to Weyerhaeuser today to express your
opposition to destructive and predatory logging. Demand that CEO
Steven R. Rogel put an end to the logging and distribution of
old growth wood and paper products immediately and commit his
company to the above guidelines. Send
an email to Steven R. Rogel. You can also contact him at the
address below.
Mr. Steven R. Rogel
Chief Executive Officer
Weyerhaeuser
33663 Weyerhaeuser Way S | 
