An essential component in the successful production of quality hardwood products is the log procurement department. Besse Forest Products Group has experienced, professional procurement foresters placed throughout the prime northern hardwood forests of the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, New England, and Canada. Whether searching private and public sales for standing timber or working with independent loggers to buy cut logs, Besse's procurement foresters have access to and purchase only the finest hardwood logs to supply the mills.

To ensure that the logs reach the mills as quickly as possible, Besse's foresters take advantage of a well-established transportation system to move the logs to their destinations. Close coordination between the foresters and the company's transportation manager, speed the logs overland on trucks and over 50 specially designed company owned rail cars.