• The Pacific Lumber Company, officially abbreviated PALCO, and also commonly known as PL, was one of California's major logging and sawmill operations,...
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    in 1925. After the Sugar Pine Lumber Company went bankrupt in 1933, it wound later be purchased by Pacific Lumber Company and renumbered to 37. The engine...
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  • the 1980s savings and loan crisis, and his takeover of Pacific Lumber Company, a logging company active in Humboldt County, California. His other holdings...
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    as Luna, to prevent Pacific Lumber Company loggers from cutting it down. She ultimately reached an agreement with the lumber company to save the tree. She...
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  • Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is the second-largest lumber producer in the United States. A privately held company, it was co-founded in 1949 by R....
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  • Luna (tree) (category Pacific Lumber Company)
    Julia Butterfly Hill and saved by an agreement between Hill and the Pacific Lumber Company. The tree was vandalized about a year after the agreement but was...
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    Fern Canyon (category Pacific Lumber Company)
    International Biosphere Reserve. Fern Canyon was donated by the Pacific Lumber Company to the State to add 2,125 acres (860 ha) to Prairie Creek State...
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    Park. In 1969, the Union Lumber Company was purchased by Boise Cascade and John Quincy and it became Georgia Pacific Lumber Company in 1973. The mill was...
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  • control of the once storied, then vilified, and, finally, bankrupt Pacific Lumber Company in Humboldt County, California from Maxxam Inc. of Texas. The final...
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  • North Pacific Group (NOR PAC), founded in 1948 as North Pacific Lumber Company, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, was a major wholesaler and distributor...
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    Scotia, California (category Pacific Lumber Company)
    850 (2010 census). Scotia is a company town founded by the Pacific Lumber Company (PALCO) to house workers for the lumber industry. The town was entirely...
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  • California, largely owned by the Pacific Lumber Company (PALCO) Selby, California, owned by American Smelting and Refining Company. Spreckels, California, formerly...
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    north from San Francisco to Humboldt County to transport lumber south. The Southern Pacific Railroad controlled the southern end of the line from Willits...
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    metal mines, lumber – had established a monopoly franchise. Dam sites and war-industry camps founded other company towns. Since company stores often had...
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    The Sugar Pine Lumber Company was an early 20th century logging operation and railroad in the Sierra Nevada. Unable to secure water rights to build a log...
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    Fortuna was the location of one of two secondary mills of the storied Pacific Lumber Company, headquartered ten miles (16 km) south in Scotia. Since Fortuna's...
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  • Hammond Lumber Company was a logging and resource extraction company operating in Humboldt County, CA. In 1892, Vance Lumber Company purchased the Humboldt...
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  • The Legacy of Luna (category Pacific Lumber Company)
    treesitting in December 1997 and stopped when she made a deal with the Pacific Lumber Company. In a first person narrative, Hill relates how she appealed to the...
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    Humboldt Redwoods State Park (category Pacific Lumber Company)
    the Redwoods League in 1921 largely from lands purchased from the Pacific Lumber Company. Beginning with the dedication of the Raynal Bolling Memorial Grove...
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  • Lumber Company Mono Lake Railway and Lumber Company Navarro Lumber Company Northern Redwood Lumber Company Outer Harbor Dock and Wharf Company Pacific Coast...
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  • Death of David Chain (category Pacific Lumber Company)
    circumstances during a protest in California Redwood Forests against the Pacific Lumber Company. Chain was a member of the Earth First! environmental advocacy group...
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    changed its name to Georgia-Pacific Plywood & Lumber Company in 1948. In 1956, the company changed its name to Georgia-Pacific Corporation. In 1957—led by...
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  • 19, 2008) was a timber executive, who served as president of the Pacific Lumber Company in the 1990s, politician and the mayor of Fortuna. Campbell was...
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  • Long-Bell Lumber Company in Columbus, Kansas. The Long-Bell Lumber Company branched out using balanced vertical integration to control all aspects of lumber from...
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    lumber to booming markets on the west coast and all over the globe, set the stage for the seemingly unlimited budget and access to resources. Pacific...
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    The Yosemite Lumber Company was an early 20th century Sugar Pine and White Pine logging operation in the Sierra Nevada. The company built the steepest...
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    Louisiana-Pacific was based in Portland, Oregon; the LP headquarters were moved to Nashville in 2004. LP acquired several lumber companies in California...
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    became home to the workforce for one of the largest lumber mills in the world, the Pacific Lumber Company. It was often the first home of immigrants to the...
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    largest hardwood lumber company with over 300,000 acres of land. The company would eventually merge with Georgia-Pacific Lumber Company. During World War...
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