PITTSBURG — Manulife Investment Management, a timber management investment organization, has signed a purchase and sales agreement to buy the 146,400-acre Connecticut Lakes Headwaters Tract from Aurora Sustainable Lands LLC in Pittsburg, Stewartstown and Clarksville.
A price has not yet been disclosed.
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