Hurricane response includes publication of guide.

HURRICANE RESPONSE INCLUDES PUBLICATION OF GUIDE. Weyerhaeuser Co., Federal Way, Washington, USA has published a specially-prepared employers' guide for companies with operations in areas affected by natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. Rebuilding a Community: An Employer's Guide to Assisting Employees is now available to other employers across the United States. The guide is based on a document Weyerhaeuser put together as emergency response following 1999's Hurricane Floyd. It is available at www.weyerhaeuser.com/katrina/#Employers_Guide.

IN OTHER WEYERHAEUSER NEWS:

* The Weyerhaeuser Co. Foundation has donated two tracts of land in Chile to The Tropics Foundation, supporting sustainable rural development and conservation of the environment in the American tropics. Value of the land is estimated at US$ 1.5 million.

* Weyerhaeuser said it would, in connection with its ongoing strategic review, close two operations in southwestern Washington, the result of poor markets, aging machinery, high operating costs and small-scale operations. The affected mills include: The 140,000 metric ton/yr, 50-year-old Cosmopolis mill that makes specialty pulp for plastics, photographic papers, and cigarette filters, employing 245 hourly and salaried people; The 81-year-old Aberdeen large log lumber mill that produces 125 million board feet per year of softwood lumber used in residential and commercial construction and appearance-grade millwork. The mill employs 97 hourly and salaried people.

* Early in October, Weyerhaeuser announced the indefinite closure of the Prince Albert pulp and paper facility in Saskatchewan, Canada due to fundamental challenges in the uncoated free-sheet paper and pulp markets, including excess capacity, declining demand, mounting inventories, and weak prices.