Women in Industry Forestry and Mill Tour
In 2023, a group of 15 women from Boise Cascade and D.R. Horton ® , the largest U.S. homebuilder by volume, journeyed to Medford, Oregon, for a comprehensive overview of the process to manufacture engineered wood products. The two-day trip began in the woods to understand the logging process and sustainable forestry practices. The group then toured three of our mills: Medford Plywood, White City Veneer, and White City Engineered Wood Products. The experience enabled participants to learn more about each other’s day-to-day roles, as well as how products go from log procurement to the manufacturing floor to the finished products installed in a home. The event was so successful that it was repeated in 2024 with another group of women in the industry, including our customers Builders FirstSource ® and Beazer Homes. Our commitment to sustainable forestry practices contributes to healthy forests to create abundant wood supply for products people need in their daily lives, as well as sustain areas for wildlife to call home and people to enjoy for recreation.
Verifying Our Practices We have dedicated teams of procurement
associates at each of our manufacturing locations who engage directly with suppliers, landowners, and loggers in the supply chain. Understanding where all our wood originates is a responsibility that our procurement teams take very seriously, and it is a key element of our due-diligence system. Our suppliers must agree to rigorous contractual requirements to provide legally harvested wood, which includes the protection of threatened and endangered species; use of loggers trained in responsible harvest practices; and adherence to forestry Best Management Practices (BMPs) to protect water quality. Each year we conduct internal audits of our sustainable forestry practices at all manufacturing locations, and a sample of our locations are audited by a third party. We value the opportunities to continually improve our practices that arise during the audit process.
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2024 Boise Cascade Sustainability Highlights
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