About
Our Mission
Connecting healthy forests, local wood, and the people who care for them
Based in Western Washington, serving the greater Pacific Northwest.
Female owned and operated. Founded 2018
Based in Western Washington, serving the greater Pacific Northwest.
Female owned and operated. Founded 2018
Company Highlights & Experience
- Founder & Program Director, built the Jefferson County Sustainable Forestry Program, founded in 2019
- Certified Forester, Society of American Foresters & Association of Consulting Foresters
- Small Forest Landowners: provided 80+ forest management plans · 20+ selective harvests · 100+ forest consultations
- Research Forester, CRTC — developing a regional cross-laminated timber (CLT) supply chain through local forest products
- Public/Non-Profit Clients: Whidbey Institute, Bainbridge Island, Island County, Port Townsend, Bellingham, and land trusts
- Portland International Airport sold locally sourced wood for the new main terminal of Portland International Airport (watch)
- FSC Forest Management Certification - get certified with us starting in January 2027!
- Co-Founder, The Woodshed Project — building local wood market economies with a national team of experts, female led
- National Auditor — FSC, SFI, PEFC & ATFS sustainable forest management systems
The Team
Malloree Weinheimer, Certified Forester ACF, Founder
Malloree Weinheimer, founder of Chickadee Forestry, is a Certified Forester (SAF, ACF) with nearly two decades of experience in forest health, land management, and rural community development. She founded and developed Jefferson County's Sustainable Forestry Program, building local forestry capacity and wood economies from the ground up, and served as Lead Research Forester for CRTC's work developing a local wood supply chain for thermally modified western hemlock CLT. For over a decade, she's worked with rural communities and local partners to provide local forestry solutions. In her free time, she enjoys combining travel and work (always looking for new forestry research and projects), trail running, swimming, seeing live music, and her most recent obsession: skiing . Malloree holds a BSci in Forestry from the University of Washington.
A little press: A favorite recent podcast interview with Mike Cronin, another longer interview on work/background Apple Podcast or Spotify. Articles from Jefferson County, Bainbridge Island's Moritani Preserve, and the CRTC ACLT work via Forest Stewards Guild Magazine
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Samantha Chang, Certified Silviculturist
Samantha retired as a certified silviculturist from the USDA Forest Service, where she developed complex silvicultural prescriptions for forest thinning with emphasis on forest resilience and accelerating development of late seral habitat structure in the western Cascades. She is an active member of the Society of American Foresters, past Washington State SAF Chair and 2017 Forester of the Year, and recipient of the 2021 SAF President's Award for Outstanding Field Forester. In addition to too many hobbies (woodworking, beekeeping, hobby farming, restoring a 1968 travel trailer, learning to play the ukulele, to name a few) she serves on the Board of Directors for Glacier Peak Institute, and is a regular volunteer at the Western Washington Fruit Research Foundation orchard. |
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Contractors and Partners
Chickadee Forestry is backed by a network of trusted contractors built over more than a decade of working together.
Rather than a fixed in-house team providing multiple areas of expertise, we bring in the right specialists for each project — sawmill operators, economists, wood market specialists, architects, loggers, carbon specialists, wildlife researchers, and additional foresters — matched to your land and goals. This allows us to deliver custom expertise for complex projects, forest to frame.
Every contractor is qualified, vetted, and shares our vision for providing services that support the land, community, and economy.
Want to know more? We're happy to share a full company profile with team resumes and past project details upon request.
Chickadee Forestry is backed by a network of trusted contractors built over more than a decade of working together.
Rather than a fixed in-house team providing multiple areas of expertise, we bring in the right specialists for each project — sawmill operators, economists, wood market specialists, architects, loggers, carbon specialists, wildlife researchers, and additional foresters — matched to your land and goals. This allows us to deliver custom expertise for complex projects, forest to frame.
Every contractor is qualified, vetted, and shares our vision for providing services that support the land, community, and economy.
Want to know more? We're happy to share a full company profile with team resumes and past project details upon request.
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