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| 11/9/2015

Plum Creek merger with Weyerhaeuser to create nation's largest timber company

Weyerhaeuser Co will purchase Plum Creek Timber Company, one of Florida's largest landowners*, in a deal announced on Sunday that the two companies said would create a $23 billion timber, land and forest products company, the largest in the United States. Read the full story here. and see more at the Gainesville Sun.

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*Editor's note: In an earlier version of this story, Plum Creek was incorrectly identified as Florida's largest landowner. This brief has been corrected to reflect that. The title of largest private landowner in Florida currently belongs to Deseret Ranches of Florida, with 550,000+ acres.

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