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\u201cFirms engaged in producing, processing, marketing or using lumber and lumber products have been able to hedge their risk exposure\u2026 Usually, but not always, hedgers transfer unwanted price risk to speculators. Speculators are investors who hope to achieve profits by buying futures when they think prices will rise or by selling futures when they think prices will fall.\u201d From \u201cAn Introductory Guide to Random Length Lumber Futures and Options,\u201d CME Group, 2009, \u279d<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2<\/p>\n The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) first listed lumber futures in 1969 as \u201cRandom Length Lumber\u201d futures contracts. Today, the CME trades lumber futures under the designation LBR, one trade unit of which consists of 110,000 board feet of 2x4s at different lengths (from 8 to 20 feet).<\/p>\n 3<\/p>\n William Cronon, Nature\u2019s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, 1st ed (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), 178.<\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n Cronon, Nature\u2019s Metropolis, 178.<\/p>\n 5<\/p>\n \u201cU.S. Finalizes 35% Tariffs on Canadian Softwood Lumber,\u201d Forest Data Network, August 23, 2025, \u279d<\/a>.<\/p>\n 6<\/p>\n SOM: Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, Architecture and Urbanism 1973\u20131983 (Stuttgart: Verlag Gerd Hatje,1983), 92.<\/p>\n 7<\/p>\n \u201cSale of Weyerhaeuser\u2019s Federal Way Campus Means More Intensive Development,\u201d The Seattle Times, February 9, 2026, \u279d<\/a>.<\/p>\n 8<\/p>\n On Weyerhaeuser\u2019s new building: \u201cWeyerhaeuser Headquarters at 200 Occidental,\u201d JTM Construction, \u279d<\/a>.<\/p>\n 9<\/p>\n \u201cNew Roots for Timber Giant: Weyerhaeuser Headquarters at 200 Occidental,\u201d Mithun, \u279d<\/a>.<\/p>\n 10<\/p>\n For the Docomomo campaign: \u201cWeyerhaeuser International Headquarters,\u201d Docomomo US, \u279d<\/a>.<\/p>\n 11<\/p>\n