It's more than your land. It's your legacy.

Forests are more than soil, water, trees and wildlife. For a landowner, it’s a part of your very identity. We respect your land as much as you do. That's why so many landowners choose us to market their timber through our network of trained and qualified professional loggers and wood suppliers.

Another option for landowners is to work directly with one of our foresters, who can craft a harvesting plan that meets your needs.

What can you expect from us:

• Courteous, professional and responsive assistance from our procurement foresters.
• Assistance in achieving your timber and wildlife management objectives.
• Help obtaining forest management certification, if desired.
• Timber sale security, including load tags, security cameras and mill truck scale monitoring.
• A post-harvest program that will meet your expectations and your state's best management practices.

A Sustainable Future Starts Here.

Our dedication to responsible procurement is part of our very fiber. Promoting healthy and productive forests benefits us all for generations to come.

Our procurement policy in summary:

WestRock is committed to responsible procurement of virgin fiber through sustainable forestry practices. We support and promote sustainable land stewardship practices that integrate the growing and harvesting of trees. We protect and conserve soil, air and water quality. We safeguard biological diversity as well as wildlife and aquatic habitats. We respect recreational and aesthetic properties and forests with high conservation value.

Procure Responsibly

• We obtain fiber from responsible, well-managed sources.
• We maintain certified land management, fiber sourcing, controlled wood and chain-of-custody certifications using third-party auditors.
• We commit to increasing the overall procurement of fiber from certified sources and avoid purchasing raw wood fiber from sources engaging in:
• illegal logging or trade of illegal wood or forest products.
• violations of traditional and human rights in forestry operations.
• operations that have an adverse impact on regions of high conservation value.
• significant conversion of high-conservation-value forests to plantations or non-forest use, unless the conversion results in net social or environmental gains.
• introduction of genetically modified organisms in forestry operations.

Promote Sustainable Forestry

• We comply with environmental laws.
• We employ scientific information such as state Natural Heritage Programs and NatureServe to promote long-term forest productivity and protect biological diversity.
• We support the increase of certified lands by encouraging landowners to follow accredited programs such as SFI®, ATFS and FSC® certification standards.
• We participate in landowner outreach and education efforts (field tours, landowner classes).
  
  
  
  

WestRock and the American Forest Foundation Partner for Forest Conservation

The American Forest Foundation, WestRock Company and the WestRock Foundation have partnered in the Cumberland Plateau to focus on increasing the number of family landowners in the paper and pulp supply chain who sustainably manage their forests for biodiversity, clean water and wildlife habitat.