The Jefferson Timber Cooperative is a group of small, private, timber growers and wood processors who are committed to redirecting our region’s primary legacy industry. Our vision is to create a long-term, sustainable, and profitable collection of businesses capable of transforming locally-grown logs into high-value wood products ranging from building packages to custom furniture. Analogous to the way the local food movement has inspired a renaissance in the Peninsula’s agricultural economy over the past 20 years, a local wood economy will create new prosperity-level, high-skilled jobs for underemployed people in their prime working years. An integrated local wood economy will also protect valuable habitat, prevent forest conversion, increase carbon sequestration, and close the resource-use loop by using chips, sawdust, and other wood wastes to create biofuels, mulches, and other products.