[1][11] By 1906, adequate standing timber was hard to find in Minnesota, so Brooks-Scanlon began buying timberland in Florida, initially near Orlando.

The company announced it planned to build a new sawmill in Florida, but did not give a target date for opening the mill.

[19] In 1917, Brooks-Scanlon bought a sawmill in Eastport, near Jacksonville, Florida, to begin producing lumber for the New England construction market.

[18] In 1951, Brooks-Scanlon sold 440,000 acres (1,800 km2) of previously harvested Florida forest land to Buckeye Cellulose Corporation, a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble.

[25][26] A month later, Foley Lumber Industries bought Brooks-Scanlon's Foley plant and some additional timber land with the intention of working with Buckeye Cellulose to build a pulp mill to utilize the second-growth timber available on the land previously owned by Brooks-Scanlon.

The following year, Brooks-Scanlon opened a sawmill on the east bank of the Deschutes River on the outskirts of Bend.

Within a year of opening, the Brooks-Scanlon and Shevlin-Hixon sawmills were the two largest producers of pine lumber in the world.

When the new sawmill was fully operational, Brooks-Scanlon was cutting lumber around the clock with more than 2,000 workers on the company's payroll.

Previously, its railroad logging operations were used primarily for harvesting timber lands south of Bend.

The acquisition included the Shevlin-Hixon sawmill and adjacent property, all of its railroad and logging equipment, and large tracts of central Oregon timber lands along with the associated water rights.

The former Brooks-Scanlon sawmill continued producing lumber until 1994, when the Bend mill was finally closed due to diminished timber supply in the area.

[29][34] Today, the Brooks-Scanlon sawmill site has been redeveloped into the Old Mill District, a commercial and retail area on the banks of the Deschutes River in Bend.

[53][54] The Bend Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company in 1947 to help injured loggers and sawmill workers.

Today, Brooks-Scanlon's offshoot, Brooks Resources, remains a major contributor to the Foundation which currently supports a wide range of community institutions and philanthropic programs throughout central Oregon.

The Foundation funds scholarships, public artwork, and a wide variety of other community programs and environmental projects.