Reed Family

#5 on the LR 100

For more than 130 years, this sixth-generation, family-owned forest-products-company has grown and nurtured its landholdings in the West and, more recently, the Southeast. GREEN DIAMOND RESOURCE COMPANY was founded in 1890 as Simpson Logging Company by Sol Simpson. The lumberman was a tireless innovator whose many advances included the introduction of mechanized log-hauling machines. In addition to its deeded ownership, Green Diamond Management Company has an undisclosed interest in Twin Creeks Timber LLC, a 609,000-acre joint venture with Silver Creek Capital Management. All of the joint venture’s working forests in the West and the Southeast are certified under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) standards.

A TWO-DECADE EFFORT to restore ancestral land along the Klamath River culminated in May with the transfer of 47,097 acres belonging to the Reeds’ Green Diamond Resource Company, a move that more than doubled the land holdings of Northern California’s Yurok Tribe. The deal originated with the Reeds, who decided to sell the acreage, parts of which the tribe considers sacred land.

Despite never purchasing property directly from the Yurok, the Reeds have long supported the tribe’s vision of acquiring, owning, and managing land within the boundaries of its reservation.

“For all of us, there was this idea that it was really the right thing to do,” says Doug Reed, Green Diamond’s president and chairman. “It’s about values: What do we want to be as a company and what will serve us well in the long-term?”

Rank:

#5

Total Acres:

1,615,000

States:

California, Washington and Oregon

Black Bear in Woods

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@ Lucas Townsend

Reed Family

#5 on the LR 100

Black Bear in Woods

LR100_05_Reed_LucasTownsend

@ Lucas Townsend

For more than 130 years, this sixth-generation, family-owned forest-products-company has grown and nurtured its landholdings in the West and, more recently, the Southeast. GREEN DIAMOND RESOURCE COMPANY was founded in 1890 as Simpson Logging Company by Sol Simpson. The lumberman was a tireless innovator whose many advances included the introduction of mechanized log-hauling machines. In addition to its deeded ownership, Green Diamond Management Company has an undisclosed interest in Twin Creeks Timber LLC, a 609,000-acre joint venture with Silver Creek Capital Management. All of the joint venture’s working forests in the West and the Southeast are certified under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) standards.

A TWO-DECADE EFFORT to restore ancestral land along the Klamath River culminated in May with the transfer of 47,097 acres belonging to the Reeds’ Green Diamond Resource Company, a move that more than doubled the land holdings of Northern California’s Yurok Tribe. The deal originated with the Reeds, who decided to sell the acreage, parts of which the tribe considers sacred land.

Despite never purchasing property directly from the Yurok, the Reeds have long supported the tribe’s vision of acquiring, owning, and managing land within the boundaries of its reservation.

“For all of us, there was this idea that it was really the right thing to do,” says Doug Reed, Green Diamond’s president and chairman. “It’s about values: What do we want to be as a company and what will serve us well in the long-term?”

Rank:

#5

Total Acres:

1,615,000

States:

California, Washington and Oregon

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