International Paper.

• Position: EASTERN

ROANOKE RAPIDS -- Stamford, Conn.-based International Paper sold 77,000 acres of forest, mostly in northeastern North Carolina, to two Raleigh nonprofits. The Nature Conservancy and the Conservation Fund paid $80 million for the land. About 22,000 acres are along the Roanoke River; 20,749 are in the watershed of the Tar River; and 15,464 are on the Chowan...