Our summer internship program provides a unique opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to gain on-the-job experience in our businesses and to learn about PotlatchDeltic. Interns are provided with meaningful projects and collaborate with other students, as well as with employees and managers. Internships not only develop a pipeline of potential future talent, but also provide our employees an opportunity to be mentors and build their leadership skills. Our 2022 summer interns included four interns in our southern timberlands, four interns in Idaho timberlands and six interns at our wood products facilities.

Timberlands interns worked on a variety of projects including seedling survival assessments, comparison of three-year-old growth in open pollinated vs. mass-controlled pollinated seedlings, integrating Cherrylane Seed Orchard’s parent tree and combined orchard block climate information into a spatial model to match our seed orchard seed to planting locations with like climates, delineated Stream-Side Management Zones on harvest areas and field verification of seedling identification and mapping utilizing high-resolution imagery.

Wood products interns worked with the safety and environmental departments with key projects including data collection, managing aerosol waste and recycling, and taking water samples. A wood products IT intern provided end user support and training, installed personal computers and other equipment and built workstations.