The Timber Co-op does not try to compete on price with mass-produced, mass-

marketed commodities like standard framing lumber. Instead, we focus on species and

products that we can sell at a competitive price—often items that the big mills and

retailers don’t offer. If JTC costs a little more in some cases, the price reflects the value

you receive from buying wood with a story—a superior quality product that supports

local jobs and sustainable forestry.

JTC sources its logs from the Olympic Peninsula and Kitsap Peninsula. Part of our

founding mission was to break with our region’s legacy of exporting raw logs for

processing—often to east Asia—and instead use those logs to support local jobs and

communities.

JTC is committed to buying logs from member businesses and other growers that

practice triple-bottom-line forestry—maximizing ecological, social, and economic

impacts. Instead of planting monocultures that get clearcut every 35 years, these forest

managers selectively harvest trees from older stands with high biodiversity.

Specifically, JTC’s policy is to source timber:

1. Grown in forests that are certified by the Forestry Stewardship Council or

managed to equivalent standards;

2. Salvaged from blowdowns, fires, hazard trees, post-industrial material, or land-

clearing operations in designated residential zones; or

3. Harvested during thinning or other forest-health operations.

The Timber Co-op is always looking for hard-working, creative entrepreneurs who want

to help build something bigger as they build their individual businesses. Our culture is

built on trust and transparency, anchored in a shared commitment to making our

communities and forests better.

The Co-op has a Membership Application and Membership Agreement that involves a

candidacy period and a member equity buy-in. For more information, contact our

Executive Director, Cody Wayland, at cody@jeffersontimbercoop.com.

So glad you asked! Let us count the ways:

• Think of JTC when you plan your next project—buy beautiful wood from us and help make local wood as big as local food;
  
• Stop by the Yard, at 6432 Highway 20, just south of Jefferson County Airport, to meet our people and look at what we’ve got in stock;
  
• Contact JTC if you or friends or family own some trees that need to be harvested and that you’d love to see processed locally;
  
• Follow JTC’s progress on our website, social media, and traditional media;
  
• Spread the word—tell friends and family about JTC and the local wood movement;
  
• Consider investing money in JTC by becoming a preferred shareholder and receiving annual dividends.

The term “circular economy” refers to breaking the traditional “take-make-waste” pattern of linear resource use and replacing it with innovative industrial systems that make long-lived products and reduce or eliminate waste. For JTC, building a circular wood economy means sourcing logs from ecologically diverse, sustainably managed forests, carefully maximizing the value of every log, minimizing fossil fuel use in transportation, and upcycling all by-products.

The sawyer-entrepreneurs who started the Co-op wanted to do four things:

• brand and market local, sustainably sourced wood;
  
• acquire the land security needed to make long-term investments in their businesses;
  
• get to a scale that would allow them to process by-products and achieve zero waste; and
  
• access the capital-intensive facilities and equipment needed to expand their product lines.

By banding together as a business cooperative, all of these goals became achievable. With expert support from Luis Sierra of the Northwest Cooperative Development Center, JTC was born in January 2025.