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In the deal, Plum Creek gave up 31,000 acres (13,000 ha) of land, much of it along Interstate 90 east of Seattle, in exchange for 11,500 acres (4,700 ha) in Federal lands. Plum Creek had warned the U.S. Government that it would log the land should the deal not go through. The federal government also had to pay $4.3 million as part of the deal.
The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land purchase nearly 130,000 acres (530 km 2) of Plum Creek land west of Missoula County in the Fish Creek area of Mineral County, and east of Missoula County in the Potomac Valley. The price is $150 million. Plum Creek will continue to have timber harvesting rights. [15]
The Plum Creek Timber Land was established by the United States General Land Office in Colorado on June 23, 1892, with 179,200 acres (725 km 2). On May 12, 1905, the forest was consolidated with Pike's Peak Forest Reserve and the name was discontinued. [1]
Plum Creek and The Rockefeller Group to Pursue Development of 4,722 Acres in the Southeastern U.S. SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. (NYS: PCL) , and The Rockefeller Group ...
Plum Creek is one of the largest landowners in the nation and the most geographically diverse, with approximately 6.4 million acres of timberlands in major timber producing regions of the United ...
Rick Holley, Plum Creek's president and CEO since 1994, will remain CEO. Lindquist has worked for Plum Creek for 12 years, having joined the company in 2001 as executive vice president in charge ...
On November 8, 2015, it was announced that Weyerhaeuser would buy Plum Creek Timber for $8.4 billion, forming the largest private owner of timberland in the United States. [17] The transaction closed on February 19, 2016. [18] At the time of the merger the combined companies own about 13,000,000 acres (20,000 sq mi; 53,000 km 2) of timberlands.
In 1874, when Wilder was seven years old, the family left their home near Pepin for the second time, and settled just outside Walnut Grove, Minnesota.Walnut Grove may be the most recognized name of all the towns Wilder wrote about in her books (although it is the only town she did not mention by name) because Michael Landon's television series Little House on the Prairie of the 1970s and 1980s ...