Plum Creek Timber Company News

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Plum Creek Timber Co. paid tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees for groups that supported its development plan in the Moosehead Lake region, according to the company and some of its supporters.

As the price of oil, seems to be moving up again, alternative energy is also beginning to make a comeback.

The Fairfield County Council put the final touches Wednesday night on an ordinance that will allow for the purchase of 625 acres to be developed into an industrial park.

After so much dreariness for the Plum Creek Timber Co. over the past two years, it's a welcome relief for company officials to announce a bit of good news: a fruitful partnership with the Flathead Electric Cooperative and the Bonneville Power Administration.

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Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. today announced a quarterly cash dividend of $0.42 per share.

We said goodbye to a dear old friend a few days ago by swapping out of Plum Creek Timber and into American Tower .

V.F.Corporation third quarter sales fell 5% to $2.08 billion and net income fell 7% to $217.9 million or $1.94 a share.

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Colorado golf course owner Stacey Hart wants to get the money monkey off his back from a lawsuit claiming that he owes $2.5 million for undeveloped golf course property in Fallbrook, Calif.

The vote to approve zoning changes for Plum Creek Timber Company's development along Moosehead Lake was delayed by protest.

This coming Wednesday, the first chapter in one of the largest and costliest battles over Maine's North Woods will likely come to a close when state regulators vote on Plum Creek's Moosehead Lake development plan.

Missoula County will lease office space from the Seeley Lake Fire District which purchased the facility from Plum Creek Timber Company in August.

New home sales rose last month at the fastest rate in more than eight years as buyers eagerly took advantage of bargain prices -- a clear sign, economists said, that the real estate market finally may be bouncing back.

Timberland is a rarity because prices have risen steadily since the mid-1990s, with Southern timber properties more than doubling to around $1,700 an acre, even as the price of logs, lumber and other forest products scrapes multiyear lows.

When The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Lands announced in June of 2008 their commitment to purchase 500 square miles of Plum Creek Timber Company lands in the state of Montana for more than $500 million, they knew that many challenges that awaited them.

With Plum Creek Timber laying off hundreds this year, dismantling its Ksanka and perhaps Pablo mills, and closing on the "conservation sale" to taxpayers of one-third of its Montana timberlands since 2001, the question begs: How much longer will Montana's largest forest products company remain in Montana? To guess the future, it helps to know the ...

Published: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 10:44 p.m. A previously little-used land preservation program has again paid dividends.