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Kenneth W. Ford (August 4, 1908 – February 8, 1997) was an American businessman and lumber mill owner from Asotin, Washington, who founded Roseburg Forest Products in 1936. In 2017, his family was the 12th largest private landowners in the United States owning 783,000 acres in the Pacific Northwest, North Carolina and Virginia.
Port Gamble lumber mill, 1904. Pope & Talbot, Inc. was a lumber company and shipping company founded by Andrew Jackson Pope and Frederic Talbot in 1849 in San Francisco, California. Pope and Talbot came to California in 1849 from East Machias, Maine. Pope & Talbot lumber company was very successful, with the high demand of the 1849 Gold Rush ...
In 1948, the company announced it would close its lumber production mill in Foley due to a lack of sufficient heavy timber to keep the mill running efficiently. [ 18 ] In 1951, Brooks-Scanlon sold 440,000 acres (1,800 km 2 ) of previously harvested Florida forest land to Buckeye Cellulose Corporation, a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble .
Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is the second-largest lumber producer in the United States. [1] A privately held company, it was co-founded in 1949 by R. H. Emmerson and his son, A. A. "Red" Emmerson, the long-term CEO, and A. A. Emmerson's sons George and Mark are now president and CEO.
Seattle - Kerry Lumber Mill - 1900 By 1900, with timber supplies in the upper Midwest already dwindling, American loggers looked further west to the Pacific Northwest . The shift west was sudden and precipitous: in 1899, Idaho produced 65 million board feet of lumber; in 1910, it produced 745 million. [ 53 ]
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Image credits: Genie_noteC #5. I cut open all my product containers and use every last drop. It's more about not wasting stuff, but it's also frugal. You would be surprised how much product can be ...
PotlatchDeltic Corporation [2] (originally Potlatch Corp) is an American diversified forest products company based in Spokane, Washington.. It manufactures and sells lumber, panels and particleboard and receives revenue from other assets such as mineral rights and the leasing of land as well as the sale of land considered expendable.