Weyerhaeuser NR's board of directors and officers are all also officers or directors of the parent company.

In addition, he received $ 200, 000 compensation for serving on the board of Expeditors International and $ 140, 000 for serving on the board of Weyerhaeuser, giving him a total annual compensation of over $ 1. 2 million.

For example, in 2010, Weyerhaeuser reported planting 50 million seedlings.

* Weyerhaeuser Au Sable River Canoe Marathon, starts in Grayling and ends in Oscoda down the river.

In the latter half of the 1920s, the Weyerhaeuser Company and Long-Bell Lumber Company established processing facilities.

Pine Tree Lumber Company, run by Charles A. Weyerhaeuser and Richard " Drew " Musser, was one such business that took advantage of the water power, with their operations in Little Falls beginning in 1890.

Malvern is home to several manufacturing companies including Acme Brick, Weyerhaeuser, Borden Chemical, Adams Face Veneer Company Inc, Leggett & Platt Precision, and Pactiv Corporation, and is the home of Grapette International, a manufacturer of Grapette soda.

The mansions of Charles A. Weyerhaeuser and Richard " Drew " Musser stand on 1st St SE alongside the Mississippi River and adjacent to Maple Island Park.

Located above the confluence of Pike Creek and the Mississippi River is the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum.

The museum was named for Charles A. Weyerhaeuser, a prominent lumberman in the area.

The following year, the Nelson Company was purchased by what would, six years later, become the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, continuing the intensification of logging activities in the area.

Today only Weyerhaeuser manufactures lumber in the area.

* Weyerhaeuser Corp.

Wright City was once home to a Weyerhaeuser plant ; it closed permanently in mid March 2009 due to the slowed lumber industry.

Weyerhaeuser was Wright City's economic power engine, and its closing affected 165 employees.

In 1969 the Weyerhaeuser Company of Tacoma, Washington, purchased the Dierks's holdings, including the Wright City production complex and continued the operations, which remained the primary economic base of the community until March 2009 when all operations of the mill ceased due to low demand for lumber and the worsening economy.

For years, the economy of Springfield hinged on the lumber industry, with the largest employer being Weyerhaeuser Company.

Weyerhaeuser opened its Springfield complex in 1949, and after years of aggressive logging was forced to downsize as old growth lumber became less available.

In the 1990s, the Weyerhaeuser sawmill and veneer ( plywood ) plants closed, and the paper plant was downsized.

Millersburg's infamous stench of past years, often attributed to the Wah Chang facility, is actually generated by the nearby Weyerhaeuser wood products processing mill.

Major employers in Sweet Home include White's Electronics, a metal detector manufacturer ; HEVI-Shot, a manufacturer of shotshell ammunition ; Cascade Timber Consulting, a timber investment management organization ; Weyerhaeuser ; the United States Forest Service and the Sweet Home School District.

In March 2002, Willamette Industries was officially acquired by Weyerhaeuser Company in a hostile takeover.

Weyerhaeuser still operates a successful hard wood mill at the Port of Garibaldi.

According to Peter Robison and Christopher Donville of Bloomberg News, as reported in the Seattle Times ( April 17, 2009 ), " Weyerhaeuser is in a financial crisis so deep the largest U. S. lumber producer turns down the heat in its offices to save money ..." On September 28, 2009, Moody's reported Weyerhauser's proposed new notes rated at Ba1, a rating that puts them with junk bonds.

S & P rated Weyerhaeuser's credit at BBB-and downgraded Weyerhaeuser stock from stable to negative on December 16, 2009.

Weyerhaeuser is one of North America's largest distributors of wood products ; it owns more than seven million acres ( 28, 000 km² ) of land in the U. S., and holds logging rights to more than 35 million acres ( 142, 000 km² ) of land in Canada.

On August 22, 2006, Domtar, Inc. agreed to combine with the paper business of U. S. forest products company Weyerhaeuser Co. to form a new, U. S .- based publicly traded company operating as Domtar Corporation.

* 1973-1974 Frederick S. Benson III ; President, United States – New Zealand Council ; former Vice President, Weyerhaeuser Company ;

Piasecki was married to Vivian O ' Gara Weyerhaeuser on December 20, 1958.

In January 1900, Frederick Weyerhaeuser founded Weyerhaeuser Timber Company with 15 partners and 900, 000 acres ( 3, 600 km² ) of Washington timberland purchased from James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railway.

The proprietor is able to create a leadership impossible in the corporate structure with its board of directors and stockholders.

Interest rates are determined by the board of directors of the bank with the approval of the Farm Credit Administration.

It is a truism of business that no business can be better than its board of directors and its top management.

-- Three positions on the Oak Lodge Water district board of directors have attracted 11 candidates.

J. A. W. Iglehart, chairman of the Oriole board of directors, and Public Relations Director Jack Dunn.

Elected to the board of directors were:

She now serves on the board of directors of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Theater Center and on the board of trustees of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.

In addition to representing persons and organizations in lawsuits, the ACLU lobbies for policies that have been established by its board of directors.

The executive officer acts as chairman of the ACLU's board of directors, and is responsible for fundraising and facilitating policy-setting.

The board of directors consists of 80 persons, including representatives from each state affiliate, as well as at-large delegates.

In order to further grow the club's budget, the AZ board of directors has decided to extend the capacity of the new stadium to a minimum of 30, 000 seated spectators somewhere in the near future.

Former CEO Dale Fuller was fired in July 2005 after a series of financial and commercial blunders, but remained on the board of directors.

He next accepted a post as a director with Wigan Athletic, then became a member of Manchester United's board of directors in 1984 and remains one as of June 2011.

Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996 for $ 429 million, bringing back Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization.

The directors of an organization are the persons who are members of its board.

Outside directors bring outside experience and perspective to the board.

Outside directors are often useful in handling disputes between inside directors, or between shareholders and the board.

Individual directors often serve on more than one board.

The role and responsibilities of a board of directors vary depending on the nature and type of business entity and the laws applying to the entity ( see types of business entity ).

Theoretically, the control of a company is divided between two bodies: the board of directors, and the shareholders in general meeting.

Another feature of boards of directors in large public companies is that the board tends to have more de facto power.

Many shareholders grant proxies to the directors to vote their shares at general meetings and accept all recommendations of the board rather than try to get involved in management, since each shareholder's power, as well as interest and information is so small.