Rick Holley

Plum Creek Timber Co., Inc. is a timberland owner in the United States of America. It involves in the harvesting of trees, selling the timberland and converting trees into lumber, plywood and other wood products. It operates through following business segments: Northern Resources, Southern Resources, The Real Estate, Manufacturing, and Energy and Natural Resources. The Northern Resources segment consists of timberlands in Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. The Southern Resources segment consists of timberlands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. It sells primarily softwood saw logs and pulpwood. The Real Estate segment comprises sales of higher timberlands and sales of non-strategic timberlands. The Manufacturing segment consists of two lumber mills, two plywood mills, and two medium density fiberboard facilities in Montana and one lumber remanufacturing facility in Idaho. The Energy and Natural Resources segment includes its natural resource businesses that focus on opportunities for oil and natural gas production, construction aggregates and mineral extraction, wind power and communication. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Plum Creek Timberlands LP distributed timber or logs to wood. The company was founded in 1998 and was headquartered in Federal Way, WA.

The Seattle Times Co. publishes daily newspapers. It owns affiliate newspapers in Washington and Maine, a network of online news, information and advertising websites, and printing & distribution subsidiaries. The company was founded in 1896 by Alden J. Blethen and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc. is an American company that provides an array of industry data prepared by NAREIT staff and other outside sources. The non-profit company is based in Washington. The company specializes in REITs, or real estate investment trusts, which are companies that own or finance income-producing real estate across a range of property sectors. Most REITs trade on major stock exchanges, and they offer a number of benefits to investors. Steven A. Wechsler has been the CEO of the company since 1997.

American Forest & Paper Association, Inc. operates as a national trade association for pulp, paper, packaging and wood products. It offers Pulp, Paper-Based Packaging and Tissue Products. The company was founded on January 1, 1993 and is headquartered in West Palm Beach, FL.