Editor's note: As a new year begins, the Missoulian is looking back and updating a few of the stories that graced our pages during 2010.

KALISPELL -- Montana could purchase vast forested swaths of Plum Creek Timber Co. land, valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, under a little-known provision tucked into the nation's farm ...

HELENA (AP) - A group of landowners, conservation groups and public agencies have joined to strike a $30 million deal with Plum Creek ... land eventually divided _ with about half private ...