MFG Tour 2026 - Timber Tour - Community Tour/Job Seekers Tour/Students & Educators Tour
The Timber Tour will help you learn about the value and importance of natural resources to our economy and quality of life in the Flathead Valley.
The Flathead Timber Tour is held annually during Montana Forest Products Week.The purpose of the Timber Tour is to invite the Flathead Valley community to learn about the value and importance of natural resources to our economy and quality of life. This year participants on the Timber Tour will learn about forest management from harvest to production during a tour of the Weyerhaeuser MDF Plant in Columbia Falls. Tour partners, Weyerhaeuser, F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber, Flathead National Forest, and the DNRC - together will trace the product back from the mill to the forest. Foresters will present on current and projected forest conditions, as well as active forest management objectives and sustainable harvest. You will visit an active site, discuss history and the advancing technology of mills, programs available, and how landowners can play a role in improving forest health while supporting the local wood products industry.
*Participants will board a school bus that will depart from the Kalispell Chamber. Tour participants should bring snacks and water, wear closed-toed shoes, long pants, hair tied back, have no loose clothes, and be dressed for the weather as parts of this tour will be outside and in the forest. Pre-registration is required, and the tour is limited in capacity. Tour participant minimum age: 12 years old.
Special thanks to Weyerhaeuser as a title sponsor of manufacturing month: www.weyerhaeuser.com
F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber Co.: www.stoltzelumber.com
Montana Department of Natural Resources (DNRC): https://dnrc.mt.gov
Flathead National Forest: www.fs.usda.gov
Video from previous tour: Timber Tour