• Champion International Corporation
  
• American Forest Foundation
  

The forest is a complex community where trees and other plants and animals live in delicate balance. Understanding how this community functions is of vital interest to Champion. As a leading producer of paper and wood products, we seek to learn more about the growth processes of trees ...their role in the forest world... how they can be utilized fully without waste... and how we can improve their quality.

The following pages explore these aspects of forest life. We begin, here, with the story of how a tree seed takes root. Then we see how the trunk feeds and supports a growing tree, compare the leaves of familiar tree species, read the life history of a tree in its rings, glimpse the life of the forest in summer, discover all the uses of a single log, and follow the steps that Champion is taking to breed healthier and faster-growing trees for the future.

Trees are a self-renewing natural resource that can continue to provide beauty and useful products for generations to come.