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HIncand3nza t1_ixf7six wrote

Reply to comment by DifferenceMore5431 in Maine close to inking land use agreement for rural north by CyberianHuskatron

A little history here. Plum Creek Timber had plans to build a resort and sell lots for homes. It was an enormously profitable business for them in other parts of the country pre 08. Plum Creek was acquired by the timber giant Weyerhaeuser around 2016. Weyerhaeuser scrapped those plans as they are not in the business of developing resorts and subdivisions. Since then the state has been working to rezone the land that Plum creek had zoned for subdivisions

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DrMcMeow t1_ixfcci0 wrote

subdivision is a huge part of what they do.

https://www.weyerhaeuser.com/land/development-projects/

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HIncand3nza t1_ixfhe63 wrote

I don’t believe they were in that business before they acquired Plum Creek. Plum Creek was big time into it. Almost all of those subdivisions are in the south, which is where Plum creek primarily operated. Pre merger Weyerhaeuser was almost exclusively in the PNW.

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FragilousSpectunkery t1_ixg40dz wrote

And Canada, and 7 million acres in the south. They are parasites.

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HIncand3nza t1_ixheyv7 wrote

Yeah they definitely don’t have the best environmental record in the PNW, and the south is pretty abysmal. Unfortunately anything “wrong” they have ever done was well within the law. Unfortunately forestry is regulated locally.

Fortunately here in Maine we have pretty good forestry regulations. No mono cropping and no plantations. Whereas in the south it’s all mono crop pine plantations.

Monocrop Douglas Fir is biting British Columbia bad right now. There is a beetle that is decimating those trees, and a massive amount of North American lumber comes from those trees in BC

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weltron3030 t1_ixfbhpn wrote

Was in the Moosehead region if I remember correctly

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