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Simpson was a prominent forest products company in Northern California for much of the 20th century, after first acquiring California timberland in 1945, eventually managing more than 450,000 acres of forest in California, in what was then known as the Redwood Division and is now mostly part of spinoff Green Diamond Resource Company.
In 1908, the company changed its name to the Fresno Flume and Lumber Company to reflect its focus on lumber production. However, in 1912, the remaining stockholders sold the company to Ira Bennett, who soon found himself in financial trouble after a storm destroyed 2 miles (3.2 km) of the flume. Bennett ceased all logging operations soon after.
The Scotia Mill and log pond. Pacific Lumber (or PL, as locals have known it for generations) began during the heat of the US Civil War in 1863 when A. W. McPherson and Henry Wetherbee purchased 6,000 acres (24 km 2) of timberland on California's Eel River at the rate of $1.25 per acre.
The Mendocino Redwood Company (or MRC), is a California based forest products company, which operates one mill in Ukiah, with holdings of over 228,800 acres (926 km 2), primarily in Mendocino County. [ 1 ]
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.
Activists have fought for decades to stop logging at Jackson State Forest. Now an Indigenous tribe is demanding a say in the fate of their ancestral homeland.
The Madera Sugar Pine Company was a United States lumber company that operated in the Sierra Nevada region of California during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company distinguished itself through the use of innovative technologies, including the southern Sierra's first log flume and logging railroad, along with the early adoption of the Steam Donkey engine.
The mill was sold to Goodyear Redwood Company in 1916. Elk River Company took over the sawmill when Goodyear went bankrupt in 1932. The local redwood lumber industry economy collapsed when the uninsured sawmill burned in 1936. [3] Greenwood - Elk Beach, Mendocino County, California. A new sawmill was built c. 1953 and another followed in 1963.