Freres Engineered Wood

About Freres Engineered Wood

Freres Engineered Wood is a sawmill and timber buyer in Lyons, Oregon. They look to buy standing timber and timberland, mostly Douglas Fir and Whitewood, and they also run their own logging and milling operations. They want timber that's 40 years old or more, with a max butt size of 42 inches down to a 5 inch scale diameter. If you have a stand like that, here's how it works: you file a Notification of Operation with the Oregon Department of Forestry, which has to go in at least 15 days before any harvesting starts. From there you line up a local logger to handle the cutting, and Freres gives you a delivered log price for your timber. They serve Linn County and work across Oregon more broadly. The company got going in 1922, "started by one man and a dream," and has grown into a full mill operation that makes plywood, veneer, and engineered wood products. They hold certification from the American Tree Farm System, and they say they run a "zero waste business, using 100% of every log that hits our yard." They also note they manage 17,000 acres of their own timberland on a sustained yield basis and replant hundreds of thousands of trees a year. This fits a landowner with mature Douglas Fir or Whitewood timber ready to cut, who wants to sell standing timber to a mill buyer rather than find a broker, and who doesn't mind handling the state paperwork and lining up their own logger as part of the sale. From frereswood.com, read 4 October 2026.

Counties covered