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Article: PHILIP WEYERHAEUSER TIMBERMAN WITH A VISION.(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 29, 1999
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The idea of sustainability has dogged the forest industry for all of the 20th century. A number of business leaders have wrestled with it, none of them more noteworthy than Phil Weyerhaeuser.
He is not the famous Weyerhaeuser. That was Frederick, his grandfather. Frederick Weyerhaeuser started from scratch, made a fortune logging the Wisconsin pineries and in 1900 bought 900,000 acres in the Pacific Northwest at 6 gold dollars per acre.
By 1909, his manager out here, George Long, was already talking about ``timber as a crop.'' Grown like wheat, trees would yield wood forever. But it was just talk. ``Timber as a crop'' required making a 50-year ...