Plum Creek Maine Timberlands, LLC v. Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation and Vermont Department of Taxes

Dooley, J.,

¶ 48. dissenting. On January 15, 2010, the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation (FPR) approved logging on land owned by Plum Creek pursuant to a plan drafted and submitted by Plum Creek. Logging apparently proceeded quickly because on January 26, 2010, the staff forester of Plum Creek, the FPR county forester, along with others, visited a harvest of trees on part of Plum Creek’s forestland. The date of the visit was apparently arranged so that all could attend and the logging would be in progress; there was no significance to how much of the harvest had been…