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MERGER OF WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY AND PLUM CREEK

TIMBER COMPANY COMPLETED

As announced on February 12, 2016, Weyerhaeuser Company and Plum Creek Timber Company

have merged and are now one company called “Weyerhaeuser Company.” The combined

company owns more than 13 million acres of diverse and productive timberlands and operates 38

wood products manufacturing facilities across the country.

President and CEO of Weyerhaeuser, Doyle Simons, has stated that “this is the beginning of a

very exciting day for Weyerhaeuser as we bring the best assets and talent in the industry

together”. In the coming months, we will be focused on creating value for our shareholders by

capturing cost synergies, leveraging our scale and sharing our best management practices.

For the next year, we will be tracking our progress toward specific operational excellence targets.

Our focus will be on delivering the most value from every acre, the integration of core priorities

and expected cost and operational synergies.

As part of our Weyerhaeuser Recreational Lease Program, you will be an important component

for our land management strategies. We recognize that our hunting clubs have a vital role in our

success as we move forward as one company.

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Currently, we are in a transition period between the two legacy Recreational Lease programs.

We will continue to use the lease renewal processes each company had in place prior to the

announced merger. For the legacy Plum Creek leases, please continue to work with your

previous Plum Creek contact to finalize 2016-17 lease agreements. For the legacy Weyerhaeuser

leases, please continue with the online ORBIS website: www.weyerhaeuserhuntinglands.com to

create your account and lease agreement for 2017.

We appreciate your continued support and cooperation as we work together to be the world’s

premier timber, land, and forest products company.

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The North American Model of Wildlife

Conservation has recently become a focus

of several wildlife conservation

organizations and state and federal

wildlife agencies.

The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation – Part II

The First Three Pillars

Dr. Darren A. Miller, Certified Wildlife Biologist ®, Southern Timberlands Technology

Editor’s Note: The North American Model

of Wildlife Conservation is arguably the

most successful effort to restore and

conserve wildlife resources in the world.

The Model is based on the role of hunters in

conservation, but the story of The Model is

very poorly known. This series will explore

The Model in 4 installments: Model

Foundations, Model Pillars 1-3, Model

Pillars 4-7, and The Future. This is the

second installment.

In the first installment of this series

(Fall/Winter 2015 newsletter -

https://www.weyerhaeuserhuntinglands.com

/NewsLetters/Fall_2015_Issue.pdf), we

explored the historical roots of conservation

in the U.S., including the set of principles

that have guided this conservation for about

the past 100 years. This set of principles,

known as The North American Model of

Wildlife Conservation, is rooted in the role

of hunting in wildlife conservation. As

mentioned in the first installment, there are 7

pillars to the model:

1. Wildlife resources are held in a public

trust;

2. Markets for game animals are

eliminated;

3. Allocation of wildlife is by law;

4. Wildlife can be killed only for

legitimate purposes;

5. Wildlife is considered an international

resource;

6. Science is the proper tool to discharge

wildlife policy;

7. Democracy of hunting is standard.

Here, I will present the first 3 pillars of the

Model and briefly include some challenges

for these elements to remain relevant to

conservation today.

As mentioned in the first article in this

series, the first principle, that wildlife is

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This mature doe was taken on a Weyerhaeuser lease in

Dallas County, Alabama. Continuation of The Model and

our hunting heritage depends on recruiting new hunters –

include plans to introduce youth and adults to hunting in

the upcoming hunting seasons. Photo by Darren Miller

owned by the public, is truly the cornerstone

of the entire construct. It is the idea that

wildlife is owned by the public, held in trust

by the government, on behalf of the people;

the Public Trust Doctrine. However, the

idea of public ownership of wildlife is not

new. It is rooted in Roman law and the

Magna Carta of 1215, and then codified in

the U.S. by the Supreme Court in 1842 and

1896. In the U.S., this means that wildlife

are held by each state in trust of its people

and that this trust is transferred to the federal

government under certain circumstances,

such as for migratory wildlife that cross

state lines and/or international boundaries.

That is why state agencies set hunting

regulations for resident wildlife and the

federal government sets season frameworks

for migratory species, such as waterfowl and

mourning doves.

There are challenges to the Public Trust

Doctrine. The most important of these

include private claims of wildlife ownership,

prohibition or unreasonable access to and

use of wildlife, unregulated commercial sale

of wildlife, and an animal rights philosophy.

The first 2 challenges include such activities

as “high fence” operations, in which animals

such as white-tailed deer are not allowed to

leave private property, basically conferring

ownership to the landowner, in direct

violation of this pillar. Unregulated harvest

includes such activities as “rattlesnake

round-ups”. Finally, an animal rights

philosophy views each animal as an

individual and that no one, public or

private, has the right to “own”

wildlife.

The second pillar of the Model is

eliminating markets for game. As

discussed in the first installment,

when market hunting was legal in

North America for meat, hides,

feathers, and other parts, the profit

motive contributed greatly to

decimation of wildlife populations.

These markets have largely been

eliminated through state and federal

laws. The Lacy Act of 1900 made

market hunting illegal and the

Migratory Bird Treaty of 1916

extended international protection to

migratory bird species. The

Endangered Species Act of 1973

further protected species from

markets. However, there are exceptions to

elimination of markets for wildlife. For

example, it is legal to sell furbearer pelts and

some meat as the highly regulated sale of

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these items is viewed to be an overall

positive effect for conservation.

Challenges to this model pillar includes the

pet trade (it is amazing what you can

purchase on the internet!), the unregulated

sale/trade of some species, especially

reptiles and amphibians and commercialized

contests for money (e.g., coyote or prairie

dog shoots, big buck contests) which place

market value on wildlife species.

The third pillar is Allocation of Wildlife by

Law. Rhode Island established the first

hunting season in 1646, restricting harvest

of white-tailed deer. Wildlife laws and

agencies were largely developing in the late-

19th and early 20th centuries and focused

primarily on eliminating market hunting,

enforcing bag limits, and regulating legal

hunting practices, often couched in terms of

Fair Chase. Since then, numerous rules and

regulations have been developed by states

and the federal government to regulate take

of wildlife, based on science, to meet

societal and population or habitat goals.

Challenges to this pillar include local laws

and rules that infringe upon the ability to

hunt; funding for law enforcement; and

effective methods for tracking harvest of

wildlife (e.g., effective game check

processes).

In the next installment, I will explore the last

4 Model pillars.

Photo by Joe Hughes.

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Frogs and toads, like this Fowler’s toad,

call at night to attract mates.

Species of the South – Spring Chorus of Frogs

Dr. Jessica A. Homyack, Certified Wildlife Biologist ®, Southern Timberlands Technology

Rather than write about a single species, this

season’s article focuses on one of the most

familiar sounds of spring, calling frogs. The

southeastern United States is home to an

extremely high diversity of frogs, with

Texas and Alabama topping the list with an

amazing 32 and 31 species, respectively.

This high species richness is just one of the

many things that make springtime in the

southeast a beautiful time to be in the woods

or sitting on your porch listening to the

nighttime sounds of frogs and toads. Frogs

and toads are also very common across

Weyerhaeuser’s Southern Timberlands, with

a recent study in eastern North Carolina

documenting 15 species using roadside

ditches in our managed forest.

Similar to birds, each species of frog has a

unique “song” that males use to attract a

female for breeding (Figure 1). Females

select a male in part due to the quality of his

energetically-costly singing, so it’s good for

him to be strong caller. Each species also

has a different breeding phenology, which

means that males call at different times of

the year. In the south, you may hear

southern leopard frogs nearly year-round,

but spring peepers mostly call during winter

and early spring, and many of the treefrogs

do not start calling until temperatures warm

up in May or June. A chorus refers to when

you have many frogs, and often many

species, calling together in a sometimes

deafening orchestra.

If you want to learn what species of frogs

and toads are nearby, the best way is to learn

their calls. If you hear the “baaaaaa, baaaaa,

baaaa” of a nasal-sounding sheep on a rainy

July night, you are hearing the call of the

tiny eastern narrowmouth toad. Green

treefrogs are often found on windows and in

suburban areas, and you’ll hear their loud

call of “reeenk, reeenk, reeenk” through the

night. If you are near a body of water and

hear a call that reminds you of rubbing an

inflated balloon, it is likely a southern

leopard frog. There are numerous websites

that have audio files of frog calls, but one of

my favorite is the Savannah River Ecology

Lab (http://srelherp.uga.edu/anurans/).

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Many frog and toad species produce hundreds

of eggs that hatch into tadpoles and later

metamorphose into juveniles.

One of the benefits to attracting frogs and

toads to your backyard habitat is exposing

children to wildlife.

And, of course the result of all this calling is that

another generation of frogs or toads is produced.

The number of eggs that a female produces varies

by species, but a female southern toad can lay up

to 4,000 eggs in long strands in standing water.

Eggs hatch into larvae, or tadpoles, in days to

weeks depending on water temperatures, sunlight

and other factors. As tadpoles, frogs and toads are

herbivorous and use their hardened mouthparts to

eat algae and other vegetation. When tadpoles go

through the amazing process of metamorphosis,

they absorb their tale, grow four limbs, develop

lungs, and their digestive system and mouthparts

are rearranged for a carnivorous diet as adults.

Many southeastern species complete

metamorphosis by their first fall, but American

bullfrogs are one frog that can overwinter as large

tadpoles and may not reach their adult stage until

their second or third year in colder climates.

Would you like to have more frogs and toads?

Attracting frogs and toads to your woodlot

or backyard can be as simple as placing

some flowerpots on their side to serve as

toad houses or creating a water feature that

attracts southern leopard and American

bullfrogs. Your state extension office may

have more information about producing

backyard habitat for these species, or you

can get many ideas from this website:

https://www.pinterest.com/parcpins/.

Having backyard frogs and toads is one of

the easiest and most exciting ways to

introduce even very young children to

wildlife. My kids love finding, catching and

holding the toads and treefrogs that call our backyard home and I encourage you to learn more

about these Species of the South.

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The Scoop on Furbearers

Geriann Albers, Assistant Furbearer and Black Bear Biologist, North Carolina Wildlife

Resources Commission

I get some raised eyebrows when I tell

people I’m a furbearer biologist. “What

kind of bear?” is a common follow-up

question. It can be a confusing term. All

mammals have fur, right? That’s one of the

things that makes a mammal a mammal.

My light brown hair is technically fur, so am

I a furbearer? Well, the term ‘furbearer’

actually has a specific connotation in the

world of wildlife management, and it

doesn’t include bears or people. Furbearers

are a grouping of mammals whose fur has

commercial value for garment-making. This

group includes carnivores, rodents, and a

marsupial, and are historically the species

that have been trapped for their fur.

Raccoons, skunks, coyotes, foxes, bobcats,

weasels, mink, and river otters make up the

carnivore furbearers of the Southeast;

muskrats and beaver are the rodent

furbearers; and the opossum is the marsupial

in the group. Furbearers also includes the

invasive nutria, a rodent introduced from

South America. It surprisingly does not

include rabbits. While sometimes trim or

hats are made of rabbit fur, it doesn’t have

the same large-scale international

commercial market, so it is generally

lumped with squirrels in the “upland game”

section along with northern bobwhite,

partridge, and ring-necked pheasant.

So why are furbearers important? Being

such a diverse group, there are a multitude

of roles furbearers play in the ecosystem.

Muskrats are important in wetland systems

because they eat aquatic vegetation and

create patches in wetland that are important

for waterfowl. Muskrats are also delicious

and eaten by pretty much everything, so they

provide an important prey base for

everything from hawks and owls to mink

and coyote. Beaver dams, while

problematic when they flood human

structures or compromise forest stands,

provide rich environments for many other

species. Beaver ponds have really high

species diversity of amphibians,

invertebrates, reptiles, and fish, while

Photo by Colleen Olfenbuttel

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providing habitat features for waterfowl,

white-tailed deer, and moose.

Opossums are one of our more unique

furbearers. Not only are they the U.S.’s

only marsupial, meaning they raise their

young in a pouch until they are old enough

to be on their own, but they’re a very old

species. The opossum likely wandered past

dinosaurs in the New World. They get a bad

rap because one of their main defense

mechanisms is to make themselves as gross

as possible so things don’t want to eat them,

but they have a lot of redeeming qualities.

They are an important scavenger that helps

keep our forests clean of rotting meat, are

one of the mammals least-likely to have

rabies (they seem to be resistant to it,

actually), and they consume massive

amounts of ticks. That’s right, they hoover

up ticks! Recent research found that

opossums spend a lot of time grooming

themselves and eat a large portion of ticks

they find on their body while grooming. It

is thought during one season a single

opossum can kill about 5,000 ticks. So next

time you have tick problems in your yard,

you can ask yourself what you can do to

promote opossums near your house! Well,

maybe not, but having opossums around

really isn’t so bad.

Then there are the carnivores. Carnivores

face some ire because they, like many of us,

like to eat meat. They can be especially

problematic when they decide to eat

livestock or chickens. Otters also catch

some flak for eating fish and occasionally

cleaning out a farm pond. But carnivores

provide an important ecological service.

Species like mink, bobcats, foxes, and

coyotes help keep small mammal

populations in check. This helps keep small

mammals out of our grain and our houses,

and can also reduce disease transmission.

Species like white-footed mice are an

important vector species for Lyme’s disease

“Since then I have lived to see state

after state extirpate its wolves. I have

watched the face of many a newly

wolfless mountain, and seen the south-

facing slopes wrinkle with a maze of

new deer trails. I have seen every edible

bush and seedling browsed, first to

anaemic desuetude, and then to death.

I have seen every edible tree defoliated

to the height of a saddlehorn.

Such a mountain looks as if someone

had given God a new pruning shears,

and forbidden Him all other exercise. In

the end the starved bones of the

hoped-for deer herd, dead of its own

too-much, bleach with the bones of the

dead sage, or molder under the high-

lined junipers.

I now suspect that just as a deer herd

lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so

does a mountain live in mortal fear of

its deer. And perhaps with better cause,

for while a buck pulled down by wolves

can be replaced in two or three years, a

range pulled down by too many deer

may fail of replacements in as many

decades.”

Aldo Leopold, from “Thinking Like a

Mountain”

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Furbearers are important to

maintain ecosystem function,

including helping to keep

some pest species in check.

However, they should be

viewed as a renewable

resource available for harvest

through hunting or trapping

in most states. Photo by L.

Mike Conner.

and other diseases. Rodents breed quickly,

and without checks on their population can

become overabundant very quickly. Many

of the carnivores also help clean up the

carcasses of animals in the woods that die

from other causes through scavenging.

Many of the furbearing carnivores,

especially coyotes and bobcats, can be

unpopular amongst hunters as they are

viewed to have negative effects on game

populations. However, in most cases,

appropriate habitat conditions, such as

abundant, thick vegetation for rabbits,

allows prey species to withstand predation

pressure. It is also important to realize that

these predators can help manage over-

abundant game populations. Throughout

much of the Southeast, deer are over-

abundant, causing extensive browse lines,

preventing forest regeneration. This not

only negatively effects deer populations, but

it also negatively effects other species that

need diverse forest stands to survive and

reproduce. It takes all predators, like

coyotes, bobcats and people, hunting deer to

help manage the species so we can have

both healthy deer herds and healthy forests.

Furbearer management in the Southeast

varies state to state, but is strongly

influenced by trapping. Regulated trapping

serves many important purposes: it is the

primary way furbearers are captured for

research, it helps manage furbearer

populations from becoming overabundant,

and it removes furbearers that are causing

damage. State agencies are responsible for

managing furbearers, and most states have a

furbearer biologist dedicated to ensuring

furbearers are properly managed. If you’re

interested in learning more about furbearers

and trapping, attending a trapper education

course in your state is always a good place

to start getting some basic information.

Furbearers are a diverse, interesting group

and important to our fields and forests for a

variety of reasons. Most are very abundant

throughout the Southeast, including some

that are too abundant like the invasive

nutria, and are managed accordingly. But

they all provide their own benefits (and

sometimes cause their own problems) and

can be very “watchable” wildlife.

Photo by L. Mike Conner

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Food plots can be important to increase

nutritional health of deer, especially in

mostly forested environments.

How Much is Enough?

Dr. Bronson Strickland, Assoc. Extension Prof., Certified Wildlife Biologist®, Mississippi State Univ.

A question I commonly receive is “how

many food plots do I need to help increase

quality of deer diets on my lease?” I can see

the frustration in people’s eyes when I can’t

provide a concrete answer to their question.

But these types of questions require

numerous qualifications because the right

answer depends on many conditions. For

the remainder of this article, I’m going to

walk you through all the variables that affect

how many food plots, or how much food

plot acreage, you need to improve diet

quality for white-tailed deer.

The first factor you must consider is your

goal for the deer herd. Do you simply want

to increase harvest opportunities with food

plots, or do you want to improve nutrition

with hopes of growing larger antlers?

Another factor you must determine is what

you are starting with in terms of habitat

quality. For example, is the property

completely forested or is it located in an

agricultural region with an abundance of

soybeans and winter wheat? Are you willing

to spend the time and money to grow

effective warm season food plots?

With deer diet quality, protein gets all the

attention; but there’s more to good nutrition

than protein. Digestible energy and minerals

are also very important, but we will stick

with protein for this article. Research has

shown time and time again that a diet of 16-

18% protein is sufficient for meeting a

deer’s growth needs. This is truly a case of

more is not better because a deer can’t use

more than 18% protein and the extra is

converted to urea and secreted in urine. So,

both body and antler growth are maximized

with a diet of 18% crude protein, assuming

all other nutritional needs are met.

The most common deer food plot forages

provide anywhere from 18 to 30% protein,

depending on the growth cycle of the plant.

Examples would be oats, wheat, white

clover, soybeans, cowpeas, etc. So, let’s

assume an average of 25% protein for our

analysis. If we want to determine how much

food plot acreage you need to raise the

average diet quality on your property to

18%, you need to know the average diet

quality of forages provided to deer on your

property. Luckily, there have been numerous

studies that have measured the amount and

quality of common deer forages (like

pokeweed, beggar’s lice, ragweed,

greenbrier, blackberry, etc.). As you might

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imagine, the amount of deer forage available

is directly related to the amount of sunlight

that reaches the ground. Within the

Southeast, the amount of sunlight reaching

the ground depends primarily on forest

management. Think of the amount of

vegetation on the ground following a clear

cut – it can get so thick it’s hard to walk

through. Deer, rabbits, wild turkey, and

northern bobwhite all depend on these

natural plants for both food and cover. As

the forest stand ages, you slowly see the

amount of ground vegetation diminish. This

is because sunlight is being captured by the

canopy of the trees, and little reaches the

ground. Following the first thinning of a

pine stand, you see the cycle repeat – more

sunlight reaches the ground, and thus more

ground vegetation. Now back to the original

question…what’s the average diet quality of

an average forest? The amount of forage can

range from less than 100 pounds per acre to

over 700 pounds per acre depending on the

stage of forest growth, number of thinned

stands, and recent clear cuts. I decided to use

an average of 282 pounds of deer forage per

acre because this was the average found in a

recent study.

Now that we know the average amount of

deer forage on our forested landscape, we

need to determine dietary quality of this

forage. As you can guess, this depends on

the species of plants. Protein has been

measured as high as 30% for plants like

pokeweed, and as low as 7% for other

preferred plants. Again, when you look at

the average of all these forages, it amounts

to about 12%. Now we have the identified

the crucial variables necessary to answer our

question – how much food plot acreage to

you need?

Let’s say you hunt and manage a 500 acre

property that is composed primarily of forest

land. If you use the average habitat values

discussed earlier, your property would have

282 pounds of deer forage per acre with a

protein content of 12%. So how many

pounds of food plot forage should you

provide to raise the average diet quality

from 12 to 18% across the entire 500 acres?

Some quick math provides our answer. We

start with 500 acres x 282 = 141,000 pounds

of deer forage, but only 16,920 pounds of

protein (141,000 x 0.12). To raise the

average diet quality to 18% protein on the

property using food plots, you would need to

add 120,000 pounds of food plot forage. Or,

30,000 pounds of food plot protein (120,000

x 0.25). Please see Figure 1 for how this

relationship changes depending on habitat

quality.

Another way to ask the same question would

be “how much food plot acreage do I need

on my 500-acre property?” If you keep all

the same assumptions about deer habitat

quality and food plot quality, you will see on

Figure 1 that about 3.2% of the property

should be in food plots. For these results to

hold true, your food plots must be producing

the maximum amounts during both cool and

warm seasons. That is, plots are limed and

fertilized according to a soil test to achieve

maximum growth. A maximum growth

cool-season food plot can produce about

7,000 pounds per acre and a warm-season

plot can produce 8,000 pounds per acre.

With this scenario (500 acres), you would

need 16 acres of food plots, including 9

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Figure 1. Relationships between current and desired crude protein levels on

forested land for white-tailed deer.

acres of cool season plots and 7 acres of

warm season plots. If you are not achieving

maximum growth, you will need more acres.

I hope this quick demonstration has

provided some clarity regarding how much

food plot acreage you need to actually

improve average diet quality. I made a lot of

assumptions, but I had to because every

property is different (it depends). I suspect

some readers will be encouraged by these

results, whereas others will not. You may be

in a situation where you can’t have 3% of

your property in food plots due to landowner

agreements. In that case I would focus on

lowering deer density. If you are interested

in quality deer, it’s better to have fewer

well-conditioned deer that many below-

average deer. Now go start preparing your

warm-season food plots!

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Photo by Darren Miller

Safety Alert: Food Plots on Pipelines

John Drake, Recreational Lease Manager, West-South Region

Editor Note: This information is take largely

from an internal Weyerhaeuser safety alert. We

want to be sure our employees, contractors, and

customers act safely when accessing our

timberlands ownership.

Our recreational lease customers often

establish food plots on available open areas.

This often includes powerline and pipeline

right of ways (ROWs). However, it is

critical to understand how to safely locate

and manage food plots on these rights of

ways.

Recently, Weyerhaeuser foresters worked

with a pipeline company to check the depth

of a gas pipeline in the process of locating a

crossing for a harvest operation. The

technician for the pipeline company found a

2” high-pressure line that was only 5 inches

deep. This depth is not abnormal, but what

made this particular case important was that

the recreational lease holder had been

plowing over the line and maintaining a

food plot in the location. The technician for

the pipe line company contacted

Weyerhaeuser to make sure someone was

aware of the danger associated with this

practice. Specifically, continued plowing at

this location would have most definitely

damaged the line, which could have resulted

in an explosion. Pipeline ROWs are fine to

use for food plots when proper steps are

followed relative to digging or moving dirt.

The ROW includes the entire width of the

cleared area for the pipeline. They can range

from 16 to 100 feet wide and the lines are

not always in the center or at the location of

the markers.

Safe work procedures:

811 is the new federally-mandated number designated by the FCC to consolidate all ROW calls across the U.S.

You can also contact the pipeline company directly. The number is usually on a nearby marker that looks like the one in the picture. They will send a technician out to mark the line, check the depth, and tell you where you can and cannot plow for FREE.

Plowing on steep slopes could cause the cover on the pipeline ROW to wash and even expose a pipe.

Pipe

Location

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Keeping gates locked protects

assets and helps curtail

trespassing issues year round.

Access Control during the Off Season

David Smith, Wood Flow Manager, MS/LOU Timberlands Region

For many of our recreational lease members,

the last day of fall/winter hunting season is

the last time they will enter a leased property

until late summer. During hunting season,

most of our customers understand the need

to keep gates closed for access control.

However, at the conclusion of hunting

season, it is is also critical to maintain

closed gates. For example, this is a period

of time when most lease customers are not

“patrolling” their lease thus increasing the

chances of trespassers accessing leased

property. This put both Weyerhaeuser’s

timber assests, and hunting lease assests

(e.g., shooting houses) at risk. Therefore,

we request that our leases work with us to

ensure Company gates are kept closed at all

times. Please keep in mind that access

control is part of our leasing contracts and is

an expectation of our recreational lease

customers.

Please be aware that gates sometimes are

kept open during daylight hours for

Company operations, such as logging, road

work, research, or other business. However,

a gate that is consistently left open could be

indication of an access problem. If you have

questions or concerns about opened gates,

please contact your Weyerhaeuser

Recreational Lease contact. Additionally, it

is important that both Weyerhaeuser and the

lease customer have locks on gates. If the

Weyerhaeuser lock is missing, please

contact your Weyerhaeuser Recreational

Lease contact. If the recreational lease lock

is missing, please work to see that it is

replaced.

Access control is important for everyone.

Working together, we can minimize issues

associated with unauthorized access and

improve the recreational experience for you.

Weyerhaeuser Outdoors Spring/Summer 2016

Weyerhaeuser Outdoors Spring/Summer 2016

We want to hear from you!

We are looking for hunt club members to submit questions (wildlife management, forestry, hunting, etc.), ideas for

articles, comments, and photos to include in future newsletters. We would also like to feature different

Weyerhaeuser hunting clubs in our newsletter. If you have something of interest for us or are interested in having

your club profiled, please send an email to MSALHunting@Weyerhaeuser.com and we will work with you to get a

story on your club into a future newsletter - Editor

Weyerhaeuser Outdoors on Facebook

Have you found us on Facebook yet? Our page name is “Weyerhaeuser Outdoors”. Our goal is to

provide a quality experience for all outdoors enthusiasts. On the Weyerhaeuser Outdoors page, you can:

Catch up on the latest outdoors news and information, both in Weyerhaeuser and in your local

community;

Interact with other enthusiasts;

View photos of nature and wildlife, and post your own photos;

Brag! Let’s see the results of your hunts and outdoor adventures!

Be sure to go to the Weyerhaeuser Outdoors PAGE and click the "like" icon at the top of the page. This is

where you'll find the latest news and info about Weyerhaeuser Outdoors. And, the best place to share your

stories & photos. If you aren’t sure about how to use Facebook, just ask your teenager or your grandchild;

they will have you social networking in no time!