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July 05, 2008

Big landowner gets closed-door deal

MSNBC.com: Environment - Posted: July 5th, 2008, 12:48am EDT

This photo released by The Nature Conservancy Monday, June 30, 2008, shows Holland Lake in the center of the Swan Valley at dusk, near Missoula, Mont. Plum Creek Timber has agreed to sell 320,000 acres to two conservation groups with the backing of the federal government. U.S. Sen. Max Baucus says it's the largest deal of its kind in U.S. history and will cost about $500 million.  (AP Photo/The Nature Conservancy, Tana Kappel)The Bush administration is preparing to ease the way for the nation's largest private landowner to convert hundreds of thousands of acres of mountain forestland to residential subdivisions.


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