When people ask, “Who is The Westervelt Company and what are you about?” we’re always eager to answer.

Founded by Herbert Westervelt as Prairie States Paper Corporation in 1884, we have seen much in our 122 year history: The Great Depression, both World Wars, not one but two turns-of-the-century, and a host of our own historical events that have woven into a tapestry we call The Westervelt Company.

And while our past has seen us make grocery bags, paper, and paperboard packaging, today we are a land resource organization taking an environmentally responsible, socially aware Highest And Best Use (HBU) approach to our nearly 500,000 acres of timberland and natural resources.

From a global network of sporting lodges, to a comprehensive wildlife management division, to a state-of-the-art Southern yellow pine lumber facility, to commercial and residential real estate, to ecological services including mitigation, conservation and species banking, we remain committed to our founder’s belief that “quality counts,” and we work to grow our businesses with this, and the preservation of our resources for future generations, in mind.

So when we’re asked “Who is The Westervelt Company?” we say, quite simply, “We are stewards, and we’re about the land.”