Trip to Collins Pines with Hayward Lumber Company. Collins Pines is a family-owned wood products company that began in 1855, they practice sustainable un-even age harvest of primarily single-tree selection that integrates timber management with wildlife, watershed and community health objectives.
Collins Pine owns and manages its 295,000 acres of forest in California, Oregon and Pennsylvania in accordance with the protocols and " total ecological integrity of the forest" criteria of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) . A founding member of the FSC, Collins Almanor Forest in Chester was the first privately owned forest FSC-certified by independent third-party Scientific Certification Systems Forest Conservation Program.
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