On May 31, PotlatchDeltic Corporation and CatchMark Timber Trust announced their agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction. The combined company will own approximately 2.2 million acres of timberland, including 626,000 acres in northern Idaho and more than 1.5 million…
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Forever Texas Fund Launched
The Texas Agricultural Land Trust (TALT) launched the public phase of a $10 million fundraising campaign for its Forever Texas Fund (FTF). On May 12, the land trust celebrated its 15th anniversary and founding CEO Blair Fitzsimons. The event raised…
Red Emmerson Becomes America’s Largest Landowner
With the acquisition of Seneca Jones Timber, Sierra Pacific Industries becomes America’s largest private landowner with 2.33 million acres of timberland in California, Oregon, and Washington. By Eric O’Keefe Photography by Gustav Schmiege III Red Emmerson grew up in a…
Tagged with: Aaron Jones, Bud Tomascheski, CAL FIRE, Carolyn Dietz, Curly Emmerson, George Emmerson, John Crook, Mike Crook, R.H. Emmerson and Son, Red Emmerson, Sam Smith, Sierra Pacific Industries, Todd Payne, Vaughn Emmerson
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Posted in Landowners, Timberland
2020 Deal of the Year: Bluffs of Saint Teresa
Text by Cary Estes | Photography courtesy of Saunders Real Estate The Land Report’s 2020 Deal of the Year actually took five years to orchestrate. The result was well worth it, as the State of Florida took title to a 17,000-acre tract known…
2020 Timberland Deal of the Year
By Lisa Martin | Photography by Jay Brittain Last November, one of the largest conservation transactions in the history of Minnesota closed when PotlatchDeltic Corporation sold 72,440 acres of timberland to The Conservation Fund for $48 million. The Richard King…
Suppressing Fires Has Failed
Five of California’s 10 largest fires in modern history are all burning at once. Together, this year’s wildfires have already destroyed 4,200 buildings, forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes, and scorched more than 3.2 million acres…
Tagged with: California, California Wildfire Commission, controlled burns, Fire Suppression, mitigation, Stanford Woods Institute, U.S. Forest Service, wildfires
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Collins-Modoc Reforestation Project Announced
In partnership with RenewWest, Collins will plant two million trees on 10,000 acres of the Modoc Plateau in Northern California, becoming the largest single-site carbon-focused reforestation project in US history. The goal is to improve land that hasn’t yet recovered…
Tagged with: Collins Companies, Collins-Modoc Reforestation, Modoc Plateau, Reforestation, RenewWest
Posted in Resources, Timberland
Posted in Resources, Timberland
SOLD! Florida’s Bluffs of Saint Teresa Sells for $43 Million
State of Florida Buys Bluffs of Saint Teresa Conservation spurred the $43 million sale of 17,000 acres on the Gulf of Mexico in North Florida. Dean Saunders, founder and managing director of SVN | Saunders Ralston Dantzler Real Estate, brokered…
SOLD! The Envy of New England
The Conservation Fund acquires CHADBOURNE TREE FARMS from a pioneering New England family. BY CARY ESTES PHOTOGRAPHY BY JERRY MONKMAN A premier swath of high-quality timberland in Western Maine that has been utilized as a working forest since the late…
Whitney Park Listed for $180 Million
William C. Whitney established the 36,000-acre Adirondack landmark in 1897. He paid $1.50 an acre for approximately 80,000 acres in and around the New York township of Long Lake. Socialite, philanthropist, and renowned Thoroughbred breeder Marylou Whitney inherited the estate…
Tagged with: Adirondack, John Hendrickson, Marylou Whitney, Whitney Park, William C. Whitney
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