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Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. is a timberland owner and manager, as well as a forest products, mineral extraction, and property development company. It is among the largest private landowners in the United States. It is headquartered in Suite 3100 at 601 Union Street in Seattle.〔"(Home )." ''Plum Creek Timber''. Retrieved on January 25, 2009.〕 Plum Creek was spun off from Burlington Resources as a master limited partnership (MLP) on June 8, 1989. Burlington Resources was created from the Burlington Northern railroad's natural resources holdings in 1988. Plum Creek Timber is heir to some of the of timberland originally granted by the federal government to the Northern Pacific Railway in the 1860s, and most of Burlington's lands were originally purchased, or otherwise acquired as timberland. The MLP converted to a real estate investment trust on July 1, 1999 in order to obtain tax and accounting advantages available to real estate developers. Plum Creek Timber produces a line of softwood lumber products, including common and select boards, studs, edge-glued boards, and finger-jointed studs. These products are targeted to domestic lumber retailers, such as retail home centers, for use in repair and remodeling projects. These products are also sold to stocking distributors for use in home construction. The company also does mineral extraction, natural gas production, and deals with communication and transportation rights of way. As of December 31, 2014, the company owned and managed approximately of timber lands in 19 states, as well as owned and operated five wood product conversion facilities in the northwest U.S.〔 On November 8, 2015, it was announced that Plum Creek would be bought by Seattle-based Weyerhaeuser for $8.4 billion, forming the largest private owner of timberland in the United States. ==Transactions with the U.S. Federal Government== In late 1999, Congress approved a land swap involving more than of forest land in the Cascade Mountains. In the deal, Plum Creek gave up of land, much of it along Interstate 90 east of Seattle, in exchange for in Federal lands. Plum Creek had warned the U.S. Government that it would log the land should the deal not go through. The federal government also had to pay $4.3 million as part of the deal. In 2008, Senator Max Baucus arranged for appropriations in the 2008 Farm Bill to be used to purchase of Plum Creek land in Montana. This project became known as the Montana Legacy Project. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Plum Creek Timber」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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