Divide a section up from one industrial owner to 16 new owners (of 40-acre tracts) and you have a bunch of driveways and cabins and new roads and lights. It affects wildlife. It affects timber management. You lose the connectivity. |
Wall Street looks at all that land and sees it as undervalued. It's worth a lot more to them in a real-estate deal than as a source of fiber 40 years down the road. |
We are experiencing a sea change for conservation and forestry in America and in Minnesota. |