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Wood is the ultimate green building material. It can be produced on an endlessly renewable cycle that protects the environment and sustains rural communities. Its production consumes less energy, emits fewer greenhouse gases (GHGs), releases fewer pollutants, stores more carbon and generates less water pollution compared with other building materials such as steel and concrete. It’s also safe, durable and beautiful.

Wood products are increasingly being recognized for the sustainable benefits they provide, and our wood products can help you meet important sustainable building objectives because they are eligible for credits under major green building standards such as LEED®, Green Globes® and the National Green Building Standard™. And by leveraging our software solutions, ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵ customers can maximize the efficient use of this renewable product and decrease on site waste.

WOOD IS A RENEWABLE RESOURCE

After we harvest trees in our sustainably managed working forests and make them into a multitude of different wood products, we replant the forest and start the cycle over again. All the forests we own and manage are certified to the SFI® Forest Management standard, which requires that we manage our forests sustainably. To ensure we never harvest more than our forests grow, we harvest an average of two percent of our forests each year and reforest 100 percent of the land we harvest.

While it may seem counterintuitive, . Strong markets for wood products create an incentive for smaller landowners (who harvest less frequently) to replant after harvesting and to keep forests forested rather than using them for another commercial purpose. This creates an endless cycle of timber growth and ensures that when trees are harvested to create our products, a new cycle of trees begins to grow in their place.

Keeping forests as forests provides critical ecosystem benefits that society relies on. While forests are managed for wood production, they simultaneously provide wildlife habitat, recreational opportunities, water filtration, carbon storage and more.

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SOURCING RESPONSIBLY FROM FORESTS

We source about 40 percent of the wood used to make our products from our own Sustainable Forestry Initiative®-certified forests, about 15 percent from other certified landowners, with the remaining 45 percent coming from noncertified landowners — typically small, family-owned forests. Whether it comes from a certified forest or not, all the wood used to make our products is from legal, noncontroversial and responsible sources.

It is our long-standing policy and practice to ensure that we, and all our wood suppliers, comply with all laws, and that our procurement practices do not cause or encourage destruction of forest areas at risk of loss from unsustainable forest management practices. While avoiding illegal and controversial sources of wood is important, it is just a first step. That is why we certify all our manufacturing facilities to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® Fiber Sourcing or Certified Sourcing Standards. These standards ensure we implement effective risk assessment and due diligence programs and work to expand the use of sustainable forest management practices on noncertified forests.

Whether we are buying wood from a large landowner, like us, or a small family forest owner, we work with our suppliers to ensure they have access to sustainable forestry information. We require the use of best management practices to protect water quality and that loggers are trained in sustainable forestry practices. Beyond working with our direct suppliers, we monitor our wood supply area for sustainable forestry practice implementation and work with local logger training and landowner education programs to close identified weaknesses and highlight focus areas.

For customers who are looking for assurance that the wood in their products originated from a certified forest, we maintain SFI and PEFC Chain of Custody certification at select mills. This certification allows us to provide customers with a verified claim that the wood products they buy from us come from certified, sustainably managed forests. This level of transparency and traceability is often utilized in green building programs as a proof point of sustainable forest management.

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HELPING BUILDERS REDUCE WASTE

Our innovative construction techniques, such as NextPhase® Site Solutions, can reduce job-site waste and construction time by optimizing design, material cuts and assembly. Builders using NextPhase can also receive credits under major green building standards, including the National Green Building Standard and LEED for Homes.

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