You may also know that Georgia Pacific (timber company) was one of the biggest lobbyists to shut down logging in the west using the Spotted Owl issue. The Discovery Channel did a show on this about ten years ago. This raised the value of their holdings in Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida.
Correction: the episode was on TLC (The Learning Channel)
As Sarah Palin points out, crony capitalism.
Never heard that. Funny how GP was headquartered in Portland and Atlanta and would destroy their own mills? I would question Discovery and if it was true.