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...when the University purchased rights in 2003 to a 468,000-acre swath of New Zealand forest belonging to Maori natives to become the second-largest forest owner in New Zealand, industry sources estimated it sold for more than $600 million...
...with HTRG involves the sale of more than twice that amount of land, including about 720 square miles northeast of Houston, Texas; about 510 square miles in western Washington state; about 210 square miles in northwest Pennsylvania; and about 23 square miles on the Central North Island of New Zealand...
...rights to about 1,100 square miles of forest land, about 734 of which are in New Zealand...
Neil Paku, a New Zealand native whose wife is a postdoctoral student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said New Zealand forests can be unprofitable for a variety of reasons, including difficult access to property and Maori natives making claims on the value of improvements to the land...
Paku, who has relatives involved with timber operations in New Zealand, said that the forest industry there, which is fueled to a large extent by Asian demand, has lately been difficult...