The Nature Conservancy's Legacy Project of Plum Creek Land Purchase discussed at City Club Missoula
| October 20, 2008 |  View for printing |
One of the key players in the development of the largest conservation land purchase in U.S. history said in Missoula Monday that conservation groups finally have realized the importance of keeping lumber mills operating at the same time land is being protected from encroachment by developers and other special interests.
Following her presentation about the Montana Legacy Project to the monthly City Club Missoula http://www.cityclubmissoula.org forum, Caroline Byrd - western Montana program manager for The Nature Conservancy http://www.nature.org/ - said, “I think we’ve all got it, that we need those mills.
“New Mexico and Arizona, they lost their mills,” Byrd pointed out, “and now they can’t manage their forests. So we need our mills, for so many reasons.”
The move away from what Bird called “the timber wars with the Forest Service” was crucial to putting the Legacy Project together.
By BILL SCHWANKE of the Missoulian
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Plum Creek Timber proposed sale of land
Backers of the so-called Montana Legacy Project found yet another audience. Plum Creek Timber Company proposed selling hundreds of thousands of acres of forest land to the Nature Conservancy most of it in Missoula County.
Conservancy and company officials met with Missoula's City Club http://www.cityclubmissoula.org , and revealed the deal includes 100% of Plum Creek's holdings in the Swan Valley north of Summit Lake. A conservancy board member says his group considers that area of global significance.
Ian Marquand
Full Story: http://www.kpax.com/global/story.asp?s=9209364 
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