Buying Wood Products
Information on purchasing FSC products
A number of Northwest Certified Forestry members and partners manufacture and sell locally produced FSC wood products. We strongly encourage you to seek products directly from these producers:
- Evergreen Ecoforestry in Deming, WA produces a wide variety of both hardwood and softwood custom manufactured products.
- O'Neill Pine Company stocks heavy timbers and lumber in their Chehalis, WA Certified Wood Warehouse.
- Wild Thyme Farm near Oakville, WA provides a wide variety of species and products with an emphasis on interior finishes.
- Wetset Enterprises in Mossyrock, WA runs a small mill and kiln and produces a wide range of hardwood and softwood lumber products.
- Fritch Mill in Snohomish, WA runs a smaller industrial sawmill that produces all types and species of softwood timbers and lumber.
- Alexander Lumber Mill in Onalaska, WA manufactures kiln dried alder and maple lumber.
- Coyote Woodshop on Bainbridge Island, WA offers custom milling, hauling, kiln drying, and surfacing. Click here to read an article about Coyote Woodshop that was recently featured in the NCF Wood Source Newsletter.
- Windfall Forest in Port Townsend, WA manufactures a wide range of rough sawn and finished lumber products from their magnificent 80+ year old forest. Available species include: Douglas-fir, Red alder, Western Cedar.
- For a list of other FSC certified mills, manufacturers and retailers in WA State click here.
NNRG also provides expert consulting services on specifying and sourcing FSC products for wood products businesses, green building project teams, and the general public. If you're lucky, we may even answer quick questions free of charge.
Additional sources for FSC products:
- List of FSC certified mills, manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers and printers in WA State.
- Seattle Audubon's Forest Friendly Lumber campaign for western Washington.
- Sustainable Northwest's Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities Partnership.
- The FSC U.S. National Initiative's database. Also see their resource section for green builders.
- Metafore's certification database. Be sure to choose FSC as other certification systems are included.
- The FSC International database.
- SmartWood's database of companies they have certified. This section also contains many other useful guidance documents.