Holding Accountable Boise Cascade Corporation

There are timber companies, and then there’s Boise Cascade Corporation. BCC is one of the world's nastiest, as it is a prolific harvester of old growth, and is one of the nation's primary purchasers of National Forest timber (#1 until recently).

Simply put, this company has refused to cooperate, and maintains an utterly corporate defiance of any notion of sustainability or ecosystem awareness. They habitually convert old-growth forests into managed plantations (tree farms) that have few of the ecological characteristics of a native forest, and attempt to call it 'sustainable forestry.'

Besides the traditional timber infractions, Boise Cascade has ventured into a few 'extracurricular activities' just to add insult to injury:

Whenever there is ecological destruction in the world's forests, it seems, Boise Cascade is there. A long a sordid resume of this timber giant can be found at the Rainforest Action Network. ECOS joins a national coalition leading this campaign, and many other groups have joined in blowing the whistle. You can help ECOS show Boise Cascade that their public image will only worsen until they agree to correct their behavior and start doing environmentally responsible logging.

Similar campaigns, such as the successful boycott of Home Depot, Staples and International Forest Products, show that placing a stranglehold on the market of unethical companies and publicly embarrassing them by the above strategies will eventually bring success. We are demanding the following changes from BCC:

• Phase out logging and selling of all wood products from old growth forests.
• Terminate all logging and selling of wood products from public lands in the United States.
• Commit to no further conversion of native forests to plantations.
• Cease development and planting of genetically modified trees.
• Adopt logging standards that meet or exceed those of the Forest Stewardship Council(FSC). Note: FSC is an internationally recognized accreditor of logging sustainability. Boise Cascade is using a sham, self-administered system called the Sustainable Forestry Initiative for public relations purposes alone

You can help force BCC to change their practices by taking the following actions:

1. Call Boise Cascade CEO George Harad at 208-384-6161 . Tell him to stop logging our National Forests, or you will never purchase anything again from his company.
2. Write a letter to Boise Cascade telling them to shape up, or never again get your business. Click here for a sample letter.
3. Join ECOS and sign up to get alerts and information about upcoming Boise Cascade actions.