Plum Creek timber

  • A New West thanksgiving column. Giving thanks for burned forests.

    Ralph Maughan

    Burns on private industrial forest lands versus multiple use national forest land- Giving Thanks for Burned Forests. By Matthew Koehler. Guest opinion in New West. If you want to see a real “moonscape,” check out burned over industrial forest lands that were already clearcut.

  • Plum Creek subdivisions could strain fire budget in NW Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    Plum Creek timber is the largest private landholder in Montana, and now since timbering no longer pays as much as remote subdivisions do, they are planning, asking and building a lot of them. Many are located in expensive-to-service, forest fire prone country. Most county commissions seem to think that they have to let developers do…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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