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Weyerhaeuser Completes Sale of Timberlands To Hancock Timber Resource Group

Feb 4, 2011

FEDERAL WAY, Wash., February 4, 2011 Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE:WY) today announced the completion of the sale of approximately 82,000 acres of timberlands in southwestern Washington to the Hancock Timber Resource Group for approximately $200 million.

This will contribute approximately $150 million in earnings in the first quarter. The sale is part of an ongoing process to optimize the company’s timberlands portfolio to ensure its ownership fits the long-term strategic needs of the company.

“Today’s sale represents the continued efforts to strategically rebalance our timberlands,” said Dan Fulton, Weyerhaeuser president and CEO. “We have a competitive advantage in growing and processing Douglas fir, and the sale focuses our Western operations on managing that species. While the land sold is high-quality, productive timberlands it no longer fits our long-term strategic plan.”

Following the sale, Weyerhaeuser will own or manage more than one million acres of timberland in Washington and will operate in more than 20 locations, including its corporate headquarters in Federal Way. Weyerhaeuser employs nearly 3,800 people in the region. Nationwide, Weyerhaeuser will continue to own and manage more than six million acres of timberland.

“Trees and land are the core of the company,” Fulton said. “We are the largest private landowner in the Pacific Northwest, and we remain committed to this region for the long term.”

“These highly productive timberlands represent an excellent investment opportunity for our clients and we’re very pleased to be able to acquire them,” said Dan Christensen, president of the Hancock Timber Resource Group. “This transaction is part of our ongoing effort to secure high-quality timberlands for our investors."

About The Hancock Timber Resource Group

The Hancock Timber Resource Group, a division of Hancock Natural Resource Group, Inc., an operating company of Manulife Asset Management, is based in Boston and manages approximately 5.3 million acres of timberland across the United States and in Brazil, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Additional information about Hancock Timber may be found at www.hancocktimber.com.

About Weyerhaeuser

Weyerhaeuser Company, one of the world’s largest forest products companies, began operations in 1900. We grow and harvest trees, build homes and make a range of forest products essential to everyday lives. We manage our timberland on a sustainable basis in compliance with internationally recognized forestry standards. At the end of 2010, we employed approximately 14,000 employees in 10 countries. We have customers worldwide and generated $6.6 billion in sales in 2010. Our stock trades on the New York Stock exchange under the symbol WY. Additional information about us is available at http://www.weyerhaeuser.com.

 

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