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Huge timber company backs off plans to develop Montana forest land

January 6, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
development, forestroad, forestservice, missoula, montana, plumcreek, sprawl

  Plum Creek Timber Company, the nation's largest private landowner (8 million acres nationwide), has withdrawn a controversial request to pursue residential development of remote land in western Montana.  The company had requested an easement on timber roads owned by...continued

Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield
Director, Smart Growth Program
Washington, DC
Co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; co-founder, Smart Growth America coalition; author, Once There...
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