what appears to be his most ambitious project to date has come to fruition as conservation groups this month closed a deal to purchase vast tracts of Plum Creek Timber Co. land in western Montana.

non-strategic land at $1,345 per acre. Subsequent to the quarter-end, Plum Creek completed the acquisition of 4.7 million tons of mature southern yellow pine timber in a negotiated timber deed ...

which is transferring 310,000 acres of Plum Creek timberland in western Montana to primarily public and nonprofit ownership. The goal is to preserve the land for timber management and public ...

The former Plum Creek ... The Montana Legacy Project followed, passing 310,000 acres at a total cost of $490 million. “Almost every major timber company that owned a lot of land has changed ...

When Idaho billionaire Ron Yanke purchased the timber ... Montana study, cut trees 3 times faster than they could grow back, RY has already overcut their private land. Both Champion and Plum Creek ...

MISSOULA - The U.S. Forest Service must include Montanans in the decision making as the agency negotiates with Plum Creek Timber Co. about use of federal land ... in Montana have told Tester ...

Yesterday, Plum Creek announced that it had indeed found itself a deal it just had to have: 48,500 acres of prime Maine timber land. The company will buy that land from an as-yet undisclosed ...

The Land Board earlier this year also endorsed an idea to use roughly $40 million PPL Montana has been ordered to pay to buy up more of the former Plum Creek Timber land currently owned by The ...

On Oct. 28, Plum Creek Timber announced its plans for acquiring ... Man that's some nice land! All in all, the acquisition, which was described by management as the most compelling set of land ...