Alice Rogers

Environmental Writer - Washington

Hello! Here is a small sampling of the environmental writing I've done over the years, with topics including sustainable forestry, eco-urbanism, natural resources, climate change, green technology and much more. Questions? Please get in touch!

Environmental Journalism

Partnership with North Carolina Coastal Land Trust Has Protected 6,700 Acres and Counting

Janice Allen, director of land protection at the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust with our Alissa Cale, land asset manager, and Jim Williamson, inventory manager, at our Cool Springs Environmental Education Center. The Trust is the conservation easement holder for Cool Springs.

Along the Cape Fear River on the North Carolina coast, a 265-acre tract of land buzzes with wildlife, including songbirds, ducks, rare bats, federally protected fish species and the threatened wood stork, the only stork

Alberta’s Aseniwuche Winewak Nation Protects Its Cultural Heritage with Weyerhaeuser Support

Former AWN project co-manager Vivian McDonald listens to Tommy Wanyandie tell a story in Cree with AWN Elders Billy Wanyandie and Roland Karakuntie.

In 2017, when Alberta’s Aseniwuche Winewak Nation needed better methods for tracking and documenting cultural heritage sites, our Alberta Timberlands team stepped in to help fund and launch a multi-year project that empowered AWN to better preserve its history, including in the forests we manage in the province.

By the end of last year, AWN had up

State Grant Allows Our Nursery in Turner, Oregon, to Grow Extra Seedlings for Reforestation After Wildfires

Arturo Gracia, maintenance lead, in front of a newly completed greenhouse. Arturo led the construction project at Turner.

January through June is a hectic time for Western Regeneration, with a tight production schedule to first lift and pack seedlings and then sow millions of seeds — all to ensure we’re able to meet seedling commitments to internal and external customers. This year, the team at our nursery in Turner, Oregon, had an additional challenge: building four new greenhouses in the same

Students Discover the Bounty of the Forest at Weeklong Family Forestry Expo in Montana

Weyerhaeuser volunteers get the site ready ahead of the Expo. From left: Brent Richardson, Dani Dorband, Larry Garner, Emily Weck, Julie Gardner, David Browning, Marla Chappell, Patrick Cowan, Rebecca Hamilton, Milo Funk, Sandra Webb, Seth Moffit, Caroline Henzelman, Elise Garner and Dylon Hoff.

Surrounded by a crowd of elementary school students, Sean Reynolds announced, “Today we’re going to talk about boards. Who thinks that sounds boring?”

Hands shot into the air, but Sean wasn’t dishearte

Princeton, BC, Timberlands Team Helps Students Plant 225 Trees and an Early Connection to Forestry

Trenna, Kim and Julia give the kids an overview of the day.

On May 16, our Princeton, British Columbia, Timberlands team headed out to the woods to plant 225 seedlings with 45 eager young volunteers from local schools as part of National Forest Week in Canada.

“Some kids in our area have family members working in forestry, so they get lots of exposure to the outdoors and our industry — but others don’t,” says Trenna MacLeod, a silviculture forester based in Princeton. “Our tree planting event

Lights, Camera, Forestry: Sharing the Science of Sustainability with Students

The STEM explorers film crew included three cameras to record the conversation between Blair, behind table at left, and Riley, the show’s young host.

Do you remember what sparked your interest in the timber industry? For many of us, fascination with the outdoors took root when we were kids.

That youthful curiosity is what Blair Owen and Seth Plank, planning and roads foresters based in our Vanceboro, North Carolina, Timberlands office, hoped to tap into when they stepped in front of cameras th

Millions of Our Trees Start Their Lives With Viviana Olivares and Our Rochester Seed Plant

Viviana with bagged cones awaiting their turn through the seed plant.

On a sunny September afternoon at our nursery in Rochester, Washington, hundreds of burlap bags full of Douglas-fir cones rest on enormous, covered outdoor racks. At this stage, they are nearly ready to start their journey through the drying, sorting, counting and stratification processes necessary to prepare them for planting.

Viviana Olivares, seed plant manager, and her team will be there every step of the way.

“We proce
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What Is Eco-Friendly Technology?

What is eco-friendly technology? Also known as clean tech, green tech and environmental tech, eco-friendly technology can help preserve the environment through energy efficiency and reduction of harmful waste. Green tech innovators use the latest environmental science and green chemistry to reduce the harmful impact of human activity on the earth.

Green technology is still in the earliest stages of development, but many exciting innovations have already been made in areas like renewable energy,
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What Is Carbon Storage?

What is carbon storage, and why is it frequently mentioned as a potential way to mitigate global warming? Also known as carbon sequestration, carbon storage is a complex method of capturing carbon dioxide emissions and storing them in coal seams, aquifers, depleted oil and gas reservoirs and other spaces deep under the surface of the Earth. Theoretically, this would prevent those gases from having an effect on climate.

Carbon dioxide gases are captured either at the source of production, such a
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What Are Carbon Credits?

It seems that in every news story about an environmentally-conscious celebrity who enjoys the pollution-producing services of a private jet, and in every corporate sustainability report attempting to explain away high greenhouse gas emissions, there's a mention of them: carbon credits. Like magic, they seem to erase the effects of carbon-intensive activities. But what are carbon credits, and how do they really work?

Carbon credits are a highly regulated medium of exchange used to offset—or neut