# Pollinators are Attracted to Working Forests, Here’s Why

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2022/09/pollinators-are-attracted-to-working-forests-heres-why/
- Published: 2022-09-16T10:40:26-04:00
- Author: Eillin Delapaz

**_By Rayonier_**

Did you know pollinators like bees and butterflies thrive in industrial working 
[forests](https://greenlivingguy.com/2023/03/local-voices-choices-jane-goodall-community-local/)?
In fact, beekeepers utilize and harvest Rayonier. For it lands to nourish and grow
their hives in this excellent pollinator [habitat](https://greenlivingguy.com/2025/09/pollinator-gardens-a-lifeline-for-ecosystems/).
How do we protect the native plants and pollinators [that call our forests home](https://greenlivingguy.com/2011/10/forest-festival-to-explore-gatineau-park/)?
Here we share how harvest Rayonier. For it supports and also coexists with even 
its tiniest residents:

## the pollinators.

Believe it or not, it starts with harvesting.

![Pollinator bee](https://i0.wp.com/greenlivingguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/
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## **How Rayonier Provides An Excellent Habitat for Pollinators**

Rayonier believes that healthy [forests](https://greenlivingguy.com/2016/07/sustainable-architect-wolfgang-frey-celebrates-his-second-anniversary-of-reforestation-efforts-in-china-to-offset-carbon-footprint/)
are critical to all living things. The way we manage our land gives a variety of
forest ages the opportunity to grow and flourish the way Mother Nature intended.

Lands owned by Rayonier are stratified by timber type. The result is an inventory
system that provides Rayonier with a method to sustainably harvest its landholdings.
This means that we harvest rotationally, only cutting small areas of timber that
are within a certain age class.

“We are very strategic with how we harvest our timber,” explains Sustainability 
Manager Ben Cazell. “We don’t want to start at one end of the forest and cut until
we get to the other end and start over. Our goal is sustainability. We limit how
much harvesting we do in one place due to the age of the trees. Since Rayonier has
been doing this for close to 100 years, what we have developed is a mosaic or patchwork-
style harvesting schedule. It’s a big conglomeration, a mixed up puzzle, of different
ages.”

Thanks to the patchwork-style harvesting schedule, when a section of timber is harvested,
sunlight can reach the forest’s understory. Here, seeds of native flowering plants
have been lying dormant in the soil, ready to [germinate](https://greenlivingguy.com/2021/11/top-environmental-friendly-tricks-to-reduce-your-monthly-bills/).
The result ultimately creates an abundance of flowering plants, shrubs, and vines,
all of which produce pollen that pollinators are attracted to.

“I’ve seen a multitude of flowering herbaceous plants, ferns, shrubs, and vines 
such as climbing jasmine. All of this starts to take over after a timber harvest,”
Ben says.

[Read full article here](https://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/754856-why-pollinators-thrive-working-forests)

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