Archie Aldis Emmerson

Archie Aldis “Red” Emmerson is an American businessman, the founder of Sierra Pacific Industries, a lumber products company that owns 1.9 million acres of woodland in northern California and western Washington. He was the third largest landowner in the US in 2016.

• The country’s third largest landowner, Archie Aldis “Red” Emmerson and his family own nearly 2 million acres.
• His Sierra Pacific Industries is the largest private lumber production firm in the nation with 14 sawmills across California and Washington.
• Emmerson and his father Curly started SPI in 1949. It went public in 1969 but four years later they bought out their partner and took it private
• Today, Red’s sons George and Mark run the firm as president and chairman, respectively, though Red is still at the office nearly every day.