This is the sort of thing that could turn Montana blue A sweetheart deal made behind closed doors between a bu$h administration official who is a former timber lobbyist and Plum Creek Timber Co., a former logging company turned real estate investment trust that builds McMansions. Plum Creek holds title to more than 8 million acres nationwide, including 1.2 million acres in the mountains of western Montana, and local officials were stunned and outraged at the deal. "We have 40 years of Forest Service history that has been reversed in the last three months," said Pat O'Herren, an official in Missoula County, which is threatening to sue the Forest Service for forgoing environmental assessments and other procedures that would have given the public a say in the decision making process.Poland tells the bu$h administration to do...
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