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Logging Industry: United States
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Other companies with a stake in the logging industry included Crown Pacific Partners; Rayonier, Inc.; and Weyerhaeuser Company. Crown Pacific Partners owned nearly 525,000 acres of timberland and had 2001 sales of $593 million. Rayonier produced logs and other wood products for sale in 60 countries and managed some 2.3 million acres of timberland in the United States and New Zealand. Its 2002 sales totaled $1.1 billion. Weyerhaeuser Company was the world's largest private owner of softwood timber, with holdings in the southern United States and the Pacific Northwest, and had cutting rights to 32 million acres in Canada. It had 2002 sales of $18.5 billion.
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The United States' logging industry got its roots in the New England States. When the woods became depleted there loggers wandered on over to the Great Lakes region. In 1836 when Charles Merrill of Lincoln, Maine purchased timber on the St. Clair River in Michigan, the industry boomed. A dollar and a quarter an acre was the going price around then. The logging land grab and migration there continued well into the Civil War period.
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The logging industry has enjoyed broad exemptions from the state Clean Water Act since the 1980's. These could not have proven more harmful, but Regional Water Boards throughout California simply renewed the exemptions when they expired at the end of last year. EPIC is leading a statewide effort to end these broad exemptions once and for all, challenging it across the Sierras, Central Coast, and North Coast Regions through multiple administrative actions and lawsuits.
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