100 e Land Report 1 / Emmerson Family 2,411,000 ACRES 81,000 ACRES A fter emerging as the new N o. 1 in 2021, the EMMERSON FAMILY continues to grow their holdings by acquiring more than 81,000 acres in California and Washington in the past year. e largest purchase was nearly 78,000 acres in Northern California that belonged to the heirs of omas Barlow Walker. e Emmersons’ Sierra Paci c Industries (SPI) will manage these lands in the same way they do all their forestlands: for high-quality timber, wild re-resilient forests, wildlife habitat, water, and recreation. As part of this commitment to growing healthy forests, SPI will start building a state-of-the-art conifer seedling nursery in 2023. When fully operational, it will produce 25 million seedlings annually to meet the needs of SPI, along with public and private organizations working to recover and restore California’s forests. 116 e LandReport | WINTER 2022 LANDREPORT.COM
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