Harwood Products has an aggressive timber acquisition program, buying private, state and federal harvesting contracts. Reforestation was a company policy long before it became a state requirement. Tree planting is constantly carried out by Harwood foresters on logged lands and special care has always been given to returning harvested lands to their pre-harvest condition. Minimizing environmental impact is always the forester's top priority.

Harwood Products works very closely with small non-industrial forest landowners. This group of landowners has historically been the source of the bulk of acquired resource to run our sawmill. By encouraging good forest practices we can insure a steady stream of raw material to our sawmill forever.

Harwood Products is currently working with Smartwood and Scientific Certification Systems (local certifiers) to make Third Party Certification available to small forest landowners. Third Party Certification is a way to assure the end consumer of wood products that the wood was produced and processed in a "sustainable" manner, without damaging the forest ecosystem. It also insures that local communities reap the socioeconomic benefits of a well managed forest by keeping the jobs here. The Forest Stewardship Council has been formed to become an international accreditation body under which both Smartwood and SCS operate. This movement towards Third Party Certification may well diminish the contentious debate over management of our public and private forestlands that has been raging in the west for the past two decades.