Late in 2007, storm-driven rains in southwestern Washington sent floodwater, mud, and tons of logging debris crashing into homes and farmland downstream of the Chehalis River. The floods caused massive erosion of mountain habitat and hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage, and downed an estimated 140,000 truckloads of timber – much of it on land owned by the Weyerhaeuser Company, the state's largest private timberland owner.
