Forest Service

Forest Service Paving the Way for Plum Creek?

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Eric OKeefe

The nation’s largest landowner may be getting a last-minute, going-away gift from the Bush Administration. The Forest Service may amend existing easements, a step that would allow Plum Creek Timber (NYSE:PCL) to pave roads through USFS land. Such a move would facilitate an…

Resilient Montanans Rally Around Timber

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

Worthwhile read in the New York Times today by Kirk Johnson for the National Desk. The focus of the article is less about timber or timberland as an investment and more about the Montana logging communities whose lifeblood has been altered by…

Potential for Massive Wildfires Next Summer in the West

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

The great plague that is the pine beetle infestation has now destroyed millions of acres of timber across the western U.S. and into Canada. The extent of this calamity is so enormous that last month we covered the devastation at…