Weyerhaeuser giving $1M to Nature Conservancy
Weyerhaeuser donating to Nature Conservancy for forest projects
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The Weyerhaeuser Company and the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation have
pledged one (m) million dollars to The Nature Conservancy to support
forest conservation and biodiversity projects, including some in
Oklahoma.The contributions will include both cash and interests in
forest land, and will involve projects in the Northwest and the
Southeast. Weyerhaeuser owns or leases nearly six-and-a-half (m)
million acres of managed forests in those two regions.Over the next
five years, Weyerhaeuser and the conservancy will select projects in
states including Washington, Oregon, North Carolina, Mississippi,
Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana and Oklahoma.The Washington-based company
owns about 500,000 acres of timberland in Oklahoma.