The land is part of the $490 million Legacy Project, which transfers 310,000 acres of Plum Creek timberland, mostly to public and nonprofit ownership. The state plans to take control of 100,000 ...

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 ...