Rayonier, Inc,

About Rayonier, Inc,

Rayonier, Inc, is based in Eastman, Georgia, and it is a large corporate landowner, not a logging contractor. It is a real estate investment trust that owns over 4 million acres of timberland across 11 states, including 3.154 million acres in the U.S. South. Its listed county is Dodge. It holds the Georgia Master Timber Harvester certification. The Southern species it grows include loblolly, slash, shortleaf and longleaf pine, plus oak, maple, poplar and hickory. Its forests are managed on 50-year plans, and it harvests only about 3 to 4 percent of its timberland each year. Its history goes back more than a century, through a merger with PotlatchDeltic, and it runs seven wood products facilities in four states. In its own words, "Healthy forests don’t happen by accident." It does not buy timber or do logging for outside landowners. Timber from its lands supplies its own mills first. A family looking for someone to cruise, buy or cut a stand of pine should look elsewhere. It suits readers who want to understand how a large corporate forest is run, not landowners who want a logger or timber buyer for their own woods. From rayonier.com, read 4 October 2026.

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