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Article: GAMBLE PAYS OFF FOR WEYERHAEUSER TIMBER COMPANY FORESEES GREATER QUANTITY, QUALITY FROM `HIGH-YIELD FORESTRY'.(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- December 23, 1996
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Most people of a gambling nature wouldn't make a bet that required 40 years to learn if there's a payoff.
Weyerhaeuser Co. did.
In 1966 the company decided to convert its timberlands in the Pacific Northwest and the South to a then-untested concept known as ``high-yield forestry.'' The idea was to not leave forests to nature and chance, but to manage trees much like an agricultural crop.
``Thirty years later, we're beginning to see these stands in their more mature form and what they're going to look like,'' said William Corbin, Weyerhaeuser's executive vice president for timberlands and distribution.
What it looks like is that the bet ...