Plum Creek Timber Company News

"We don't know these 320,000 acres. You do," said Caroline Byrd of The Nature Conservancy.

A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Jon Tester says federal officials have begun investigating private negotiations between the Forest Service and Plum Creek Timber Co.

Plum Creek Timber Co. is "committed long-term" to its operations in Montana, even with plans to sell 320,000 acres in a sweeping conservation deal, said Rick Holley, the company's president and chief executive ...

Two environmentalist organizations opposed to the Plum Creek development plan claim the Land Use Regulation Commission has received 1,517 comments, out of 1,762, opposing the plan's proposed development at Lily ...

Western Montana county commissioners met in Missoula about a week after the deal was announced by Sen.

Presented July 17-19 at 8 pm at Zero Station, 222 Anderson St, Portland; July 20 at 2 pm in Portland's Baxter Woods Park 207.799.5945 Through the cool shadows beneath firs and oaks move three figures in white, ...

That's what local residents said they wanted to see in Fish Creek the last time they came together to talk about local Plum Creek Timber Company holdings.

Missoula County officials alarmed about talks between the Forest Service and Plum Creek Timber Co.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. By SUSAN GALLAGHER Associated Press Writer HELENA, Mont.

The episode begins with an air of disappointment and disgust as the panel anticipates today's Senate FISA/Telco-immunity bill vote.

The recent announcement by Seattle-based timber-company-turned-Real-Estate-Investment-Trust Plum Creek that it is selling 320,000 acres in Montana to conservation groups brought out the oohs and ahhs, ...

Glenn Poole, left, of Orrington, and Alan Bray, right, of Sangerville, admire the tall, old growth trees which Plum Creek Timber Company is threatening to harvest.

By Karl Vick Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 5, 2008; Page A01 MISSOULA, Mont.

Fish Creek, Frenchtown Face, Martel Mountain lands could go public by Richard Werst Nearly 320,000 acres of western Montana forestland currently owned by Plum Creek Timber Company could move into public ...

It's been 24 hours since the Nature Conservancy and Plum Creek Timber Company announced a huge land sale in western Montana.

A huge patchwork of privately owned forest in northwest Montana - much of it abutting wilderness, and together almost a third the size of Rhode Island - will be permanently protected from development under an ...

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The iShares S&P Global Timber and Forestry ETF launched this week, with very light volume of 7,000 shares traded on its opening day.

Senator seeks GAO review of Plum Creek-Forest Service talks Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led.

This week's ClickBack, the BDN's interactive feature that solicits Editorial Page reader comments, seeks your thoughts on what the future holds for two forces at work in Maine: paper mills and recreational ...