I read the articles in The Herald about the Kimberly-Clark plant with great interest, being a retired timber manager of Scott Paper/Kimberly-Clark (“The price of white” and “Mill must do a constant balancing act,” Nov. 30). There was a statement regarding the million of trees harvested to provide wood chips for the making of paper products at the plant. This is not the case. The facts are that approximately 90 percent of the wood chips are produced by local sawmills from trees harvested for lumber, not for pulp. The Everett facility provides a market for the by-product of lumber production in the form of wood chips. This utilizes a waste product and avoids the need to cut more trees by utilizing more of the tree. This provides sawmills with additional revenue and helps to keep down the cost of lumber to build houses and other wood products, which creates jobs.
It would also have been nice if the many years of operation by Scott Paper Co. were given some consideration in the articles.
Marysville
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