Weyerhaeuser
Weyerhaeuser ranks among the world's largest forest product companies. Following the 2016 sale of its pulp business to International Paper, Weyerhaeuser operates three business segments: timberlands, wood products, and real estate. Weyerhaeuser is structured as a real estate investment trust and is not required to pay federal income taxes on earnings generated by timber harvest activities. Earnings from its wood products segment are subject to federal income tax. Weyerhaeuser acquired fellow timber REIT Plum Creek in 2016.www.weyerhaeuser.com
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Sep 22, 2026
Jay NicholGUEST
But when I was like 13, 14, 15, I was living in a small town called Own Sound in Southern Ontario.
Jay NicholGUEST
And much like these like post-manufacturing towns, like there was an old Monroe factory and an old Weyerhaeuser factory, they'd all shut down.
Jay NicholGUEST
There's like retired people and out of work people in these rural communities.
Jay NicholGUEST
There was something like 20,000 people in my town.
Steve StocktonHOST
There were a lot of scorched and dangerous trees known as widowmakers.
Steve StocktonHOST
A man by the name of Frederick Weyerhaeuser decided to make a business using the trees for timber to help rebuild the town, and business was good.
Steve StocktonHOST
Defected trees covered much of the surrounding lands, and they were there for the taking.
Steve StocktonHOST
This also helped keep people safe, as these trees were dangerous and could fall at any moment.
Steve StocktonHOST
Filling so many trees required a lot of help.
Steve StocktonHOST
Loggers came from far and wide hoping to work for Weyerhaeuser's company.
Steve StocktonHOST
The town was rebuilt and the surplus of trees were sold to paper mills.
Steve StocktonHOST
About the same time the lumber business was taking off, the Yakima Railroad finished an extension of track running from Battleground to Yakult.
Bobby CapucciHOST
The terrain along this stretch of highway is hilly and heavily wooded, alternating between thick underbrush and large evergreen forests.
Bobby CapucciHOST
A well-developed gravel road known as the Weyerhaeuser Mainline runs just south and parallel to this entire 16-mile stretch of 410.
Bobby CapucciHOST
The White River runs south and parallel to the Weyerhaeuser Mainline and serves as the border between King and Pierce Counties, up to the town of Greenwater.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Dozens of gravel and dirt logging roads spur off of the highway and the mainline throughout the 16-mile stretch.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Ridgeway was extremely familiar with this 16-mile stretch of Highway 410.
Bobby CapucciHOST
In 2003, before the task force interviewed him, Ridgeway prepared several documents that purported to detail the victims he left along Highway 410.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Ridgeway listed eight victims at different locations on this map.
Bobby CapucciHOST
All but one of these victims was placed along the southern edge of Highway 410 between the highway and the Weyerhaeuser mainline.
Bennie HarrisGUEST
And so kind of saw the writing on the wall.
Bennie HarrisGUEST
And I did my project, a project in my MBA with Weyerhaeuser Corporation in Tacoma in total quality management.
Bennie HarrisGUEST
And I was looking to say, okay, I'm gonna go back into industry and do total quality management.
Bennie HarrisGUEST
The President Sam Smith at the time and the Vice President for Institutional Advancement, Connie Kravis had appealed to me to stay at the institution and to see if there was anything else across the institution that I wanted to do other than where I was, right? And so Connie was trying to recruit me into institutional advancement because I was working with her in my other capacity to help increase the diversity and the gender representation across her division and advancement.
Bobby CapucciHOST
The terrain along this stretch of highway is hilly and heavily wooded, alternating between thick underbrush and large evergreen forests.
Bobby CapucciHOST
A well-developed gravel road known as the Weyerhaeuser Mainline runs just south and parallel to this entire 16-mile stretch of 410.
Bobby CapucciHOST
The White River runs south and parallel to the Weyerhaeuser Mainline and serves as the border between King and Pierce Counties, up to the town of Greenwater.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Dozens of gravel and dirt logging roads spur off of the highway and the main line throughout the 16-mile stretch.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Ridgeway was extremely familiar with this 16-mile stretch of Highway 410.
Bobby CapucciHOST
In 2003, before the task force interviewed him, Ridgeway prepared several documents that purported to detail the victims he left along Highway 410.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Ridgeway listed eight victims at different locations on this map.
Bobby CapucciHOST
All but one of these victims was placed along the southern edge of Highway 410 between the highway and the Weyerhaeuser mainline.
Bill HandelHOST
I mean, you talk about a loophole that you can drive several Mack trucks through.
Bill HandelHOST
And this is, well, it's just a huge change because what that means is developers, dam builders, the people who fell trees in forests, the big Weyerhaeuser, for example, are now able to indiscriminately go at it and build the dams and fell the trees and wipe out habitats because they're not intentionally doing that.
Bill HandelHOST
Now, who is covered by the Endangered Species Act? Well, fumigators, pest control people are, because they are trying to wipe out those pests.
Bill HandelHOST
They're trappers who are trying to trap animals.
Tom CurranHOST
Some incredible, beautiful flower gardens in Tacoma, Washington.
Tom CurranHOST
In Portland, the Rose Gardens, even in federal way, you have the the gardens at Weyerhaeuser and with the bonsai trees, right? That the delicate way and the care expressed in what? Taking something of God's creation and shaping and molding it so that there's another beautiful display of things.
Tom CurranHOST
This is very humanizing.
Tom CurranHOST
This is important for us to be able to have our kids, have us, allow ourselves to take in that mode of being present to the world around us.
Ryan NeilHOST
And it's pretty proven.
Ryan NeilHOST
The Weyerhaeuser did a bunch of studies.
Ryan NeilHOST
Dave DeGroot was telling me about this because of the Pacific Bonsai Museum is right in the middle of a Doug fir forest, and he had told me at one time early on that they had tested and that, um, the result of the test was that Doug firs are actually...
Ryan NeilHOST
I, I think the way he described it to me was they were actually like stealing light or s- or like-
Jason PhelpsGUEST
Yeah.
Jason PhelpsGUEST
The 200, 200,000 acres like of Weyerhaeuser ground that I was hunting, like can't, can't go in there.
Dan IsbellHOST
Right.
Jason PhelpsGUEST
I'm like, "Well, this is a bummer." Well, I'm like, "Man, if I go to the east two hours I got some public forest service ground.
Sarah MackGUEST
I grew up in Seattle at a time when it was a little bit of a backwater.
Sarah MackGUEST
It was Boeing and Weyerhaeuser were the primary employers.
Sarah MackGUEST
This was far before Microsoft or Amazon or anyone else came in.
Sarah MackGUEST
And it was just stunningly beautiful, mountains, ocean, and a really lovely community in many ways, and not a big Jewish community.
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