Plum Creek Timber Company

3+ Month Old FOIA Request to USFS Still in Transit

4&20 blackbirds (Free subscription) | yesterday

by jhwygirl The Wild West Institute’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the USFS for communications between the USFS and Plum Creek Timber for “any and all communications between the US Forest Service and Plum Creek Timber Company regarding forest-road agreements, including discussions as they relate to real estate development,” is apparently in-transit, awaiting approval...

Obama Chimes In on Plum Creek, Forest Service Agreement

NewWest.Net Travel & Outdoors (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

Barack Obama, who is ramping up his efforts to woo Montanans, weighed in this week on the "closed-door" deal between the Plum Creek Timber Company and the Forest Service that could pave the way for development of Plum Creek timberlands in the state. The story has been roiling in the state for months now, but just recently made the national news circuit. When the issue hit the pages of...

Obama Chimes In on Plum Creek, Forest Service Agreement

NewWest.Net Politics (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

Barack Obama, who is ramping up his efforts to woo Montanans, weighed in this week on the "closed-door" deal between the Plum Creek Timber Company and the Forest Service that could pave the way for development of Plum Creek timberlands in the state. The story has been roiling in the state for months now, but just recently made the national news circuit. When the issue hit the pages of...

Obama Chimes In on Plum Creek, Forest Service Agreement

NewWest.Net Missoula (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

Barack Obama, who is ramping up his efforts to woo Montanans, weighed in this week on the "closed-door" deal between the Plum Creek Timber Company and the Forest Service that could pave the way for development of Plum Creek timberlands in the state. The story has been roiling in the state for months now, but just recently made the national news circuit. When the issue hit the pages of...

• Obama Chimes In on Plum Creek, Forest Service Agreement - NewWest.Net Politics
• Obama criticizes Forest Service-Plum Creek talks - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public Land to Purchase 320,000 Acres of Plum Creek Forestland in Landmark Agreement

YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008

Today, The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public Land announced they have reached agreement to purchase approximately 320,000 acres of western Montana forestland from Plum Creek Timber Company (NYSE:PCL) for $510 million.

• The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public Land to Purchase 320,000 Acres of Plum Creek Forestland in Landmark Agreement - Business Wire

Baucus, Plum Creek, Conservation Groups Announce Massive Land Deal

NewWest.Net Travel & Outdoors (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008

Standing just below the summit of Kalispell’s Lone Pine State Park, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., today announced the purchase of 320,000 acres of Plum Creek Timber Company-owned land by two conservation groups, calling the deal, “the largest land purchase, for conservation purposes, in American history.” Dubbed, “The Montana Legacy Project,” The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public...

Baucus, Plum Creek, Conservation Groups Announce Massive Land Deal

NewWest.Net Missoula (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008

Standing just below the summit of Kalispell's Lone Pine State Park, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., today announced the purchase of 320,000 acres of Plum Creek Timber Company-owned land by two conservation groups, calling the deal, "the largest land purchase, for conservation purposes, in American history." Dubbed, "The Montana Legacy Project," The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public...

• The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public Land to Purchase 320,000 Acres of Plum Creek Forestland in Landmark Agreement - Business Wire
• The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public Land to Purchase 320,000 Acres of Plum Creek Fores.. - EuroInvestor.co.uk
• See the 5 articles on the same subject

Baucus, Plum Creek, Conservation Groups Announce Massive Land Deal

NewWest.Net Politics (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008

Standing just below the summit of Kalispell’s Lone Pine State Park, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., today announced the purchase of 320,000 acres of Plum Creek Timber Company-owned land by two conservation groups, calling the deal, “the largest land purchase, for conservation purposes, in American history.” Dubbed, “The Montana Legacy Project,” The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public...

The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public Land to Purchase 320,000 Acres of Plum Creek Forestland in Landmark Agreement

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008

... have reached agreement to purchase approximately 320,000 acres of western Montana forestland from Plum Creek Timber Company (NYSE:PCL) for $510 million. The purchase is part of an effort to keep these forests in productive timber management and protect the area’s clean water and abundant fish and wildlife habitat, while promoting continued public access to these lands for fishing,...

Subdividing the West’s Forests

GOAT - A High Country News Blog (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008

Jodi Peterson's June 9th HCN report on Plum Creek Timber Company's plans to subdivide "checkerboard" lands in Montana are just the tip of the forest subdivision iceberg. Here's more of the story.