He was talking about Frederick Weyerhaeuser (among others), the founder of the company, George Weyerhaeuser's great-grandfather. He denounced "that man whose idea of developing the country is to cut every stick of timber off of it and leave it a barren desert.
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Back in 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt laid aside his prepared speech at a forestry congress to let fly with some spontaneous remarks about people who cut down the forests-"Who skin the country and go somewhere else!" he said. Nothing in American history so spoiled the looks of the country: the worst modern blighted area of highway junkyards and slums is a sylvan park compared to the ruin left by the loggers. All timber companies were damned as looters of the public domain, despoilers of the wilderness, polluters of the rivers, destroyers of wildlife and conscienceless exploiters who ravaged the country.
What do conservationists think about Weyerhaeuser? Not so long ago the answer was easy.
If you head a company that buys land like that you have to think about conservation and, along with it, outdoor recreation. The new forest takes in one of the prime outdoor recreation areas of Arkansas, spread over seven counties in hilly, scenic, largely uninhabited country. When this purchase is completed it will add 1.8 million acres, at a cost of $325 million, to the company's holdings. In May it was announced that agreement in principle had been reached with Dierks Forests, Inc. Big as the Weyerhaeuser lands are, they are getting bigger.
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