Westervelt Forest Resources
We See the Forest - and the Trees
A Guiding Principle
Quality
Westervelt Forest Resources is committed to providing the highest quality products and services to our customers.
Everything we do is rooted in the land, and we have an unwavering commitment to protecting and conserving our natural resources.
Each of the businesses in our Forest Resources division is guided by the principles of stewardship, sustainability, and safety, and those values drive every decision we make.
Whether it is timber management, wildlife services, or real estate, each department operates by maintaining focus on protecting and responsibly managing forests and their environments. We manage more than half a million acres across the southeastern United States, and we continue to build on our legacy of stewardship.
Caring For Our Forests
Planting and Regenerating
Nourishing
Experiencing
Managing
Our Sustainability Story
Our ongoing commitment
Our 2024 Sustainability Report highlights our ongoing commitment to environmental responsibility, celebrating 140 years in business and 50 years of lumber manufacturing. It showcases how sustainability has been central to our history and continues to guide our efforts toward a more sustainable future.
Environmental Stewardship and Resource Conservation
When our company began in 1884, our founder, Herbert Westervelt, had a long-term vision for the company that was based on responsibility. This vision is still carried out today through our stewardship and conservation efforts.
Sustainability is more than a word for us, it's what we practice every day. We conserve our natural resources to ensure we and others who love forests can pass them down to our children and grandchildren. To achieve this, we employ a range of environmental best practices.
We carry out a balanced approach to timber-management practices, including streamside-management zones to avoid runoff when harvesting trees, intensive planting, continual forest management, and wildlife enhancement with on-staff foresters. We consider environmental, social, and economic factors when caring for the land, and our resource managers are committed to the continual learning required to maintain and enhance a healthy working forest ecosystem.
Best Management Practices (BMPs) are implemented to ensure water quality and aquatic biodiversity are maintained and ecological considerations are assessed for all management activities. Harvested areas are promptly regenerated using the best available science.
