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Category: Sustainability

Foresters Build Plans Around Protecting Gopher Tortoises

Foresters take their responsibility to guard protected species seriously. When it comes to the gopher tortoise, a keystone species whose burrow provides shelter to more than 300 other types of forest creatures, we build our planting and harvesting plan around ensuring their safety.

How Pinecones from Rayonier’s Best Trees Become Forests

We gather our pinecones by the tractor trailer load, but only the best will do. We share how we breed and collect the best cones and extract their seeds for future forests.

Wind Farm Provides Power to 1000s While the Trees Grow

While our tree farms grow on millions of acres of land, we’re always looking for additional ways to do more with our resources. The first-ever wind farm on Rayonier land is providing clean energy to 10s of 1000s of families.

Why Is “Wood” In So Many Foods?

Trees play a critical role in the making of thousands of everyday products. In our #ItStartsWithTrees series, we look at the science that explains why. Today, we’re looking at the many foods made with the help of the forest.

Why Trees are Irreplaceable in the Paper Products Industry

Commercial forests are critical to the paper products industry, and likewise paper products play an important role in keeping the forestry industry strong. We explain why trees are used for many paper products rather than strictly recycled paper or hemp, and how the industry keeps up with the demand.

Working Forests Protect Water Quality Across the U.S.

Working forests play a critical role in the quantity and quality of America’s water supply. We look at how the forestry industry not only protects water, but takes a proactive role in improving water supply.

Why Trees are in So Many Medical Products

In our #ItStartsWithTrees series, we look at the science that explains why thousands of products require trees. Today, we’re looking at products relating to health, hygiene and medicine.

Rayonier Foresters Plant Millions of Trees Every Year

Rayonier foresters spend more time planting trees than they do harvesting them. We look at the extensive planning and location-specific methods we use for planting trees in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, the U.S. South and New Zealand.

Rayonier Joins Wildlife Experts to Protect Forest Bat Cave

The Rayonier team welcomed biologists to build a protective cave gate and collect data in an important bat habitat found in one of Rayonier’s Mississippi forests.

Forestry Researchers Connect Across the World

A Rayonier biometrician and a French forestry engineer are collaborating on a project they hope inspires other researchers to seek insight from their peers around the globe.

How Foresters Restore Salmon Habitat in the Pacific Northwest

Rayonier has invested millions of dollars to open more than 200 miles of stream habitat to salmon in the Pacific Northwest. We take you on site to one of our restoration projects.

How Foresters Use Controlled Pollination to Improve Tree Performance

Rayonier’s genetic research team offers a behind-the-scenes look at how we use a carefully-controlled pollination process to breed our best-performing tree families.

Teaching the Teachers About Sustainable Forestry

Rayonier is proud to welcome the Florida Forestry Teachers’ Tour to our land every year to learn about sustainable forestry. This intensive school teachers’ learning experience allows educators to gain a deep understanding of the important role forestry plays in the world.

Where Do Utility Poles Come From?

Utility poles are so tall, straight and sturdy, it takes a special tree to make them. You can’t simply grow an entire forest of poles: you have to find the top candidates. Our foresters explain how they locate, measure and prepare these valuable trees.

Rayonier Forest Rangers Focused on Fire Prevention

Our forest rangers work year-round to prevent fires. During fire season, they’re ready to respond at a moment’s notice if disaster strikes.

Rayonier Researchers Save Time and Increase Quality with Grafting

Our genetics research team shows how grafting helps them save years of time in their ongoing quest to advance the quality of our trees.

Saving the Kiwi

Our New Zealand team partners with local conservation organizations, students and Māori to protect the kiwi, a threatened bird that is a national symbol, in the Omataroa Forest.