Malloree Weinheimer

Malloree joined the Craft3board in 2025, bringing expertise in small business and environmental issues in the Pacific Northwest. In 2018, Malloree started her own forestry consulting firm, Chickadee Forestry, after a decade of working in forest ecology research and rural community development. Her business is known for building the Jefferson County Sustainable Forestry Program as a state model for creating a local wood economy, for selling wood from her small harvests to the Portland Airport, and for her research on low-value wood for cross laminated timber panels in mass timber. She regularly speaks at conferences about local wood and how to make forestry scaled for rural communities.

After completing a BSci in Natural Resources from the University of Washington she went on to work for the US Forest Service PNW Research Station, US National Park Service, and Washington State in field research on a variety of forestry projects. Now she has scaled down to the local level and has found that she is more passionate about supporting smaller forestry efforts that can easily be scaled and replicated.

She also co-founded Rethinking Rural, a small business focused on helping to connect the next generation of rural leaders to ideas that work across the United States. At Chickadee Forestry, she combines all the knowledge from research, community development, and supporting the next generation of rural.

She has served on a variety of boards over the years, but currently only sits on the national membership board for the Forest Stewards Guild in addition to Craft3. In her free time, she travels and is very interested in learning about forestry and rural economic development internationally.