Transactions With The U.S. Federal Government
In late 1999, Congress approved a land swap involving more than 42,000 acres (170 km2) of forest land in the Cascade Mountains. In the deal, Plum Creek gave up 31,000 acres (130 km2) of land, much of it along Interstate 90 east of Seattle, in exchange for 11,500 acres (47 km2) 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 310,000 acres (1,300 km2) of Plum Creek land in Montana. This project became known as the Montana Legacy Project.
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