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The Weyerhaeuser Pe Ell Bridge was a covered bridge built in 1934 and located over the Chehalis River near Pe Ell, Washington.The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1982 but delisted in 1990.
The Washington Department of Natural Resources natural conservation area program was approved by the Washington State Legislature in 1987 to preserve fish and wildlife habitat while also providing a place for passive recreation, research and education. Woodard Bay was one of the four original conservation areas statewide.
Clapp was born in Pasadena, California.He was named for his maternal grandfather Matthew G. Norton, a Winona, Minnesota lumberman who via the Laird, Norton Company was to help finance the Weyerhaeuser purchase of land in Washington State in 1900.
The Weyerhaeuser Company (/ ˈ w ɛər h aʊ z ə r / WAIR-how-zər) is an American timberland company which owns nearly 12,400,000 acres (19,400 sq mi; 50,000 km 2) of timberlands in the U.S., and manages an additional 14,000,000 acres (22,000 sq mi; 57,000 km 2) of timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada. [5]
In 1936, Weyerhaeuser incorporated the Chehalis Western Railroad as a publicly regulated, common-carrier shortline to carry lumber and forest products over a 10-mile stretch of track from Chehalis, Washington to Ruth, Washington that Weyerhaeuser had purchased from the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, also known as the Milwaukee Road.
Weyerhaeuser continued pulp and paperboard manufacturing. In 1964, a federal suit was filed against Weyerhaeuser in Longview, Washington, for "discharge of refuse into navigable waterways." [ 10 ] In 1979 the United States General Accounting Office listed the Weyerhaeuser Company in Longview as a potential superfund site caused by metal ...
The Columbia and Cowlitz Railway (reporting mark CLC) is a short-line railroad owned by Patriot Rail Corporation, and is headquartered in Longview, Washington. [1] The railroad serves an 8.5 miles (13.7 km) [2] route from the Weyerhaeuser Company mill in Longview to the junction just outside the city limits of Kelso.
The Weyerhaeuser Office Building is a historic building located in Everett, Washington.It was built in 1923 as offices for Weyerhaeuser, at the time the largest employer in Everett; the company commissioned architect Carl Gould to design a 6,000-square-foot (560 m 2) building that would showcase local wood varieties such as fir, cedar, and hemlock. [3]