Issues Important to Weyerhaeuser

Weyerhaeuser policy teams monitor public policy issues that affect the business climate and coordinate company actions to understand and engage in public discourse. In 2007, issues of particular importance to Weyerhaeuser included:

• Taxation of timberlands in the United States
• Global climate change
• Energy policy, including renewable energy policies and rates levied by the Bonneville Power Administration
• Green building programs and standards and recognition for the sustainable attributes of wood products
• Conservation of and access to the boreal forest in Canada
• Softwood lumber trade between the United States and Canada