[PCA] NEWS: Timber company drops road deal with Forest Service

[Olivia Kwong]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090106/ap_on_re_us/forest_road_deal

Timber company drops road deal with Forest Service
By Susan Gallagher, Associated Press Writer -- Mon Jan 5, 10:21 pm ET

HELENA, Mont. -- The nation's largest owner of timberland disclosed Monday 
that it will no longer pursue changes in agreements governing its use of 
U.S. Forest Service roads -- changes that critics complained could 
transform forests into housing subdivisions.

Critics of the proposed changes had included President-elect Barack Obama 
and Montana's junior senator.

Changes in the agreements would benefit the public, but "given the lack of 
receptivity, we have decided not to go forward," Plum Creek Timber Co. 
Chief Executive Officer Rick Holley wrote in a letter to Missoula County, 
which opposed altering the agreements.

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