Clatsop County Forestry Tour Showcases Local Synergies and Stewardship
Last week, the Hampton team was honored to participate in the 28th Annual Community Leaders Forestry Tour, hosted by the Clatsop Forestry & Wood Products Economic Development Committee. With the theme of ‘Working Forests — More than Just Trees’, the tour was composed of nearly a hundred community members, including Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) […]
Knute Buehler: Oregon’s Chance for a New Direction
Oregonians have an important decision to make this fall; are we content with the way things are going in the state or are we in need of new leadership? As a company, Hampton Lumber takes positions on local elections and policy matters because of the impact those decisions have on our business operations, including manufacturing, […]
Rural Manufacturing Matters
You’ll have a hard time finding someone who doesn’t support domestic manufacturing. Manufacturing has the highest multiplier effect of any industry. It has long been the path to the middle class by providing good, year-round family-wage jobs that raise the standard of living. I think most people would prefer to buy things made domestically, if […]
Fair Trade Requires Talk, Not Tariffs
To sustain a healthy, resilient economy and high quality of life for current and future generations, we need to make things, not just buy things. We need to responsibly utilize, not just preserve. We have to make what we can here at home (and prioritize those things that we can make really well) to create […]
Top 5 Reasons to be #ForestProud
We have a lot to be proud of in this industry. Here are the top five reasons I’m #ForestProud:
#1 – Timber keeps the Pacific Northwest green—in more ways than one!
Timberland agrotourism? Yes, it’s a thing.
When you think of outdoor recreation in the Pacific Northwest, do working timberlands come to mind? They should. While we manage our lands for timber production, as our forests grow, they provide a variety of other benefits, including recreation. Most of Hampton’s forestland in Oregon and Washington is open to the public. While we do […]
Closing the Gender Gap at Hampton
Diversity makes us stronger. Whether we’re talking about age, race, culture, or gender, diversity enriches our organization by introducing different perspectives, experiences, skills, and interests. Unfortunately, in our industry, diversity, particularly gender diversity, is often lacking. For nearly 200 years, men have outnumbered women by large margins in the PNW forest products sector. Today women […]
Changes @HamptonLumber
If you’re like me, social media amounts to little more than cat videos and distracted conversations—but we’d be in the minority. A majority of Americans now say they get their news via social media and while that might sound alarming to some, hyper-connectivity does have its benefits. More and more people are using social media to […]
Hampton’s Export Division: Change Is the Only Constant
Guest Blog by Jim Tyrer, President, Trans-Pacific Trading (TRAPA) As the comedian Steven Wright once said: Change is inevitable except from a vending machine. I believe that TRAPA’s success over the years has come through the understanding that change is an inevitability for a company to not only grow and thrive but to simply survive. […]
Choose Hope
2016 has been a year like no other. It is easy to get dragged down by uncertainty and residual emotion stemming from the long election season we just endured but I think it’s important to focus on opportunities and hope for the year to come. There are many reasons to be optimistic. The unemployment rate […]
