Plum Creek announces details of largest conservation land purchase in U.S. history - in western Montana
| June 30, 2008 |  View for printing |
When the ink finally dries on the largest conservation land purchase in United States’ history n 320,000 Montana forest acres for $510 million n nearly nothing will have changed.
And that, of course, is exactly the point. The deal between Plum Creek Timber Co. and conservation buyers is designed to maintain the status quo; the real change would come if those western Montana acres were sold instead to real estate developers.
By MICHAEL JAMISON of the Missoulian
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