Our Sustainability Commitment

Boise Cascade has a strong history as an ethical and responsible company. We believe we have a great opportunity to make a positive impact in our world, our industry, and the communities where we operate. Our Purpose and Values shape the business decisions, ethical behaviors, and responsible actions of our associates every day. They also serve as the foundation of our approach to sustainability.   

At its core, Boise Cascade is a relationship company. We continue to build on a decades-long reputation of trust, with integrity at the center of our daily actions and decisions. As part of our commitment to an injury-free workplace, we share the accountability to watch out for each other’s safety every day, on every task. We’re focused on a welcoming culture that reflects connection, belonging, and respect. In the pursuit of excellence, we always aim to be even better tomorrow than we are today for our customers and all the stakeholders that we serve, and that includes applying best practices in our environmental management and forest stewardship programs.

CLIMATE.  We’re committed to implementing and maintaining sustainable practices throughout our distribution and manufacturing processes. By encouraging the use of wood as a renewable resource and building choice that stores carbon for many years, we can make a positive impact on the effects of climate change. Since late 2021, we have been on an intentional journey to establish a Scope 1 and 2 inventory of emissions data across our operations. As part of this initiative, we established a cross-functional team to research and select digital tools to support our efforts, resulting in our investment in two programs. These programs allow us to aggregate data from all our utility providers and track all other Scope 1 and 2 emissions sources in an analytics program. This has been a large-scale effort involving many departments and every location in our company. We’re actively working toward sharing climate-related data we know matters to our stakeholders and prepares us to meet emerging climate regulations.

SUPPLY CHAIN.  Our suppliers play an important role in allowing us to maintain our well-respected reputation, and because of that we expect them to conduct business in ways that align with our Values and adhere to our Supplier Code of Conduct. Our supply chain gives us the opportunity to offer a wide range of products and services and, most important, to establish meaningful relationships with our supply chain partners to promote ethical business practices.  

SAFETY. Promoting a culture of safety is vital to who we are as a company, and it’s our unwavering commitment. We are always striving to make Boise Cascade an injury-free workplace.

We know we still have much work to do, but we are proud of our investments, progress, and ongoing commitment to sustainability. 

I’m honored to be a part of an organization with such a bright future.

Jeff Strom
Chief Executive Officer