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Rayonier Inc.

Publicly traded · NYSE: RYN

Rayonier is a timberland real estate investment trust whose income comes from three segments: Southern Timber, Pacific Northwest Timber, and Real Estate. It owns no pulp mills or sawmills - it grows timber, sells it standing or as delivered logs, and sells land that is worth more for something other than growing trees. Its acreage is weighted heavily toward the U.S. South.

Ownership
Publicly traded
Listed as
NYSE: RYN
Headquarters
Wildlight, Florida
People
285 as of 31 December 2025, before the PotlatchDeltic merger closed
Timberland
About 2.0 million acres owned or leased at 31 December 2025 - 1.69 million in the U.S. South and 307,000 in the Pacific Northwest
www.rayonier.com (opens in a new tab)See the RYN quote

Does it buy timber from private landowners?

No - it does not buy standing timber or logs from landowners.

Rayonier sells timber off its own ground rather than buying it from neighbours. What it does buy is land: a landowner's transaction with Rayonier is usually a timberland sale, not a timber sale.

This is a company-level answer taken from what the company itself publishes. Every mill sets its own specifications, haul radius and gate price, and any of them can stop buying without notice. Confirm with the mill before you put a crew on the ground — and for a real number on a real tract, let buyers bid against each other.

What it makes and sells

  • Standing timber and delivered logs
  • Higher-and-better-use land sales
  • Rural land and development property

In the U.S. South

1.69 million of its 2.0 million acres were in the U.S. South at the end of 2025 - the largest single block of its portfolio.

Find the mills in your county in the state agency directories.

Worth knowing

  • Completed a merger of equals with PotlatchDeltic Corporation on 30 January 2026. The acreage above is Rayonier's last stand-alone figure and predates the combination; the merged company is larger, and no full year has been reported under the combined structure yet.
  • A 2-million-acre REIT run by 285 people. The work in the woods is done by contractors, not employees.

Where these facts came from

Checked against these documents on 14 August 2026. AXE USA has no relationship with Rayonier: nobody paid to be listed, this profile is not a recommendation, and nothing here is investment advice. If a fact disagrees with the company itself, the company is right.

Others in timberland owners & managers

Companies whose asset is the ground itself. They grow and sell timber, and some buy land rather than logs - which makes them a buyer for the tract, not the harvest.

All companies

  • Acadian Timber

    Not stated publicly

    Publicly traded· TSX: ADN.TO

    Acadian Timber owns and manages freehold timberland in New Brunswick and northern Maine and provides management services on Crown land. It is the smallest of the listed timberland owners on this site and the only pure read on the Northeastern market rather than the U.S. South.

    HQ
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    Land
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  • RMS

    Not a timber buyer

    Privately held

    RMS is a timberland investment manager headquartered in Birmingham. It does not manufacture anything: it buys, manages and sells forestland on behalf of pension funds, endowments and other institutional investors, and has been a registered investment adviser with the SEC since 2004. A great deal of the timberland in the Southern states is held this way - through an investment manager rather than by a mill company.

    HQ
    Birmingham, Alabama
    Land
    About 2.3 million acres of privately owned forest under management globally, valued at $5.8 billion
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  • Westervelt

    Buys wood

    Privately held

    Westervelt is a private, family-held Alabama company founded by Herbert Westervelt in 1884 and still headquartered in Tuscaloosa. It manages more than half a million acres of forest and runs several distinct businesses off that base: forest resources, lumber manufacturing, ecological services, real estate, and timberland in New Zealand.

    HQ
    Tuscaloosa, Alabama
    Land
    More than half a million acres of forest under management
    Southern yellow pine lumberTimberland managementEcological and mitigation servicesReal estate

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  • Weyerhaeuser

    Not stated publicly

    Publicly traded· NYSE: WY

    Weyerhaeuser is one of the world's largest private owners of timberland and the largest in the United States. It grows and harvests timber on its own ground, sells logs to its own mills and to outside buyers, and runs a Wood Products business making lumber, oriented strand board, engineered wood products and structural panels. It is structured as a real estate investment trust.

    HQ
    Seattle, Washington
    Land
    More than 10 million acres owned or controlled in the U.S.; long-term licences over more than 14 million acres in Canada
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