Plum Creek Timber Company has been fined US$1,000 for allegedly cutting millions of board feet of timber in a national forest.
The company pleaded guilty to two charges of cutting or damaging trees on federal land. It also agreed to pay nearly US$66,000 in restitution and to change its way of operating to prevent illegal cuts happening in the future.
The US Forest Service claimed that loggers hired by the company cut more than 1,100 trees in Clearwater National Forest during a two-year period.
