Weyerhaeuser and Ducks Unlimited Canada Team Up to Protect Alberta Migratory Bird Habitat

EDMONTON, Alberta, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Weyerhaeuser Company Limited and Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) are pleased to announce a new five year, $2.5 million ($1.25 million each partner) conservation project that will provide science-based information to help manage migratory bird habitat in all three of Weyerhaeuser's Alberta forest management areas.

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"The partnership with Weyerhaeuser will help facilitate the development of a watershed-based conservation plan that will protect key wetlands, help maintain watershed health, enhance best management practices which will further advance sustainable development, and provide better information to protect key nesting and stopover areas for a multitude of North America's migratory water-birds," said Garry Stewart, DUC's manager of conservation programs for the western boreal. "These watersheds of the western boreal forest are vital to northern communities and provide unparalleled economic, environmental and social benefits to all Canadians."

The project will begin in July 2006 and include collaborative research and monitoring initiatives that protect the integrity of watersheds, riparian habitats, water and wetlands.

"Weyerhaeuser is pleased about developing another partnership with an environmental organization as progressive and successful as Ducks Unlimited Canada. Projects such as this are invaluable in providing necessary scientific data for our foresters to use in enhancing our sustainable forest management practices," said Tom Holmes, Vice-President, Forestlands, Weyerhaeuser Company Limited.

Weyerhaeuser Company , one of the world's largest integrated forest products companies, was incorporated in 1900. In 2005, sales were $27.4 billion ($22.7 billion US). It has offices or operations in 18 countries, with customers worldwide. Weyerhaeuser is principally engaged in the growing and harvesting of timber; the manufacture, distribution and sale of forest products; and real estate construction, development and related activities. Weyerhaeuser Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary, has Exchangeable Shares listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol WYL. Additional information about Weyerhaeuser's businesses, products and practices is available at http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/.

For more information contact: Wanda Dennelly 780-453-9574 (Weyerhaeuser) Marci Dube 780-930-1242 (Ducks Unlimited)