Rayonier

About Rayonier

Rayonier is a large timber company in Waycross, Georgia, and it operates as a real estate investment trust. It owns timberland and wood products facilities in several states. It does not offer timber buying or logging services to outside landowners, so a private owner looking for someone to buy or cut a few acres will not find that here. Its holdings top 4 million acres across 11 states, and about 3.15 million of those acres are in the U.S. South, including Georgia. Southern species include loblolly, slash, shortleaf and longleaf pine, along with oak, maple, poplar and hickory. It thins crowded stands and harvests on long schedules, using standard equipment on flat ground and cable systems on steep slopes. It harvests only 3-4% of its timberland acreage each year. The business holds Georgia Master Timber Harvester certification, and Ware County is the county it serves here. Its forestry practices are independently audited for certification. Its head office is soon to move to Atlanta, Georgia. This suits a landowner who wants to understand how a large timber company runs its own land, not one who needs a buyer or logging crew for their own trees. From rayonier.com, read 4 October 2026.

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