Western Forest Products Announces Election of Directors

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - May 8, 2013) - Western Forest Products Inc. (TSX:WEF) ("Western") today announced that, at the annual and special meeting of shareholders held earlier today, each of the seven nominees listed in the management information circular dated March 28, 2013 were elected as directors of Western. The detailed results of the vote are set out below.

*As the vote on this matter was taken by a show of hands, the number of votes disclosed reflects only the proxies received by management of Western in advance of the meeting.

Western Forest Products

Western is an integrated Canadian forest products company and the largest coastal British Columbia woodland operator and lumber producer with an annual available harvest of approximately 6.4 million cubic metres of timber of which approximately 6.2 million cubic metres is from Crown lands and lumber capacity in excess of 1.1 billion board feet from eight sawmills and three remanufacturing plants. Principal activities conducted by the Company include timber harvesting, reforestation, sawmilling logs into lumber and wood chips and value-added remanufacturing. Substantially all of Western's operations, employees and corporate facilities are located in the coastal region of British Columbia while its products are sold in over 25 countries worldwide.