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The following press release was issued by Longview Fibre Company on April 18,
2006:


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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              LONGVIEW FIBRE COMPANY RESPONDS TO OBSIDIAN/CAMPBELL
                              SOLICITATION EFFORTS

LONGVIEW, Wash., April 18, 2006 - Longview Fibre Company (NYSE: LFB) issued the
following statement in response to today's announcement from Obsidian Finance
Group, LLC and The Campbell Group, LLC (Obsidian/Campbell) that they intend to
solicit requests to call a special shareholder meeting to "discuss" their
proposal for acquiring the company.

"We believe Obsidian/Campbell's latest announcement once again underscores the
weakness of their proposal. We are convinced that they have chosen this route to
compensate for the proposal's highly conditional nature, which includes
extensive due diligence as well as financing contingencies and associated
risks," said Richard H. Wollenberg, Longview Fibre's President, Chief Executive
Officer and Chairman of the Board.

"We are confident in our ability to unlock the intrinsic value of Longview
Fibre. We intend to complete Longview Fibre's REIT conversion and implement an
improved operating plan to further enhance shareholder value," Mr. Wollenberg
continued. "We believe the Obsidian/Campbell proposal is an opportunistic
attempt to acquire the company before shareholders can reap the benefits and
value of our REIT conversion and improved operating plan, which are not
reflected in our current or historical stock price. As we announced yesterday,
after careful consideration, the Board unanimously rejected the
Obsidian/Campbell proposal and determined that completing the REIT conversion
and implementing the improved operating plan is in the best interests of the
company and our shareholders."

Certain Information Regarding Participants

Longview Fibre Company's directors and certain of its executive officers, as
well as Longview Fibre Company, may be deemed to be participants in any
solicitation of Longview Fibre Company's shareholders in opposition to any
solicitation conducted by Obsidian Finance Group, LLC and/or The Campbell Group,
LLC or any of their affiliates. Shareholders may obtain information regarding
the names, affiliations and interests of such individuals in Longview Fibre
Company's proxy statement for the company's 2006 annual meeting of shareholders,
filed with the SEC on February 27, 2006 on Schedule 14A. A copy of that proxy
statement may be obtained free of charge on the Securities and Exchange
Commission's Web site at http://www.sec.gov, through the link to Longview Fibre
Company's SEC filings on the company's Web site at http://www.longfibre.com or
by directing a request to L.J. McLaughlin, 300 Fibre Way, Longview, Washington
98632, (360) 425-1550.

Important Information

In connection with any solicitation of Longview Fibre Company's shareholders by
Obsidian Finance Group, LLC and/or The Campbell Group, LLC or any of their
affiliates, Longview Fibre Company may file a proxy statement and/or other
soliciting materials and other relevant documents with the SEC. Shareholders
should read any such proxy statement, other soliciting materials or other
relevant documents when and if they become available, because they will contain
important information. Shareholders may obtain copies of such documents (when
and if they become available) free of charge on the SEC's Web site at
http://www.sec.gov, through the link to Longview Fibre Company's SEC filings on
the company's Web site at http://www.longfibre.com or by directing a request to
L.J. McLaughlin, 300 Fibre Way, Longview, Washington 98632, (360) 425-1550.

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About Longview Fibre Company

Longview Fibre Company is a diversified timberlands owner and manager, and a
specialty paper and container manufacturer. Using sustainable forestry methods,
the company manages approximately 587,000 acres of softwood timberlands
predominantly located in western Washington and Oregon, primarily for the sale
of logs to the U.S. and Japanese markets. Longview Fibre's manufacturing
facilities include a pulp-paper mill at Longview, Washington; a network of
converting plants; and a sawmill in central Washington. The company's products
include: logs; corrugated and solid-fiber containers; commodity and specialty
kraft paper; paperboard; and dimension and specialty lumber. Longview Fibre
press releases, SEC filings and Annual Reports are available at no charge
through the company's Web site at www.longviewfibre.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

Except for historical information, the statements made in this press release,
including those regarding anticipated results of the REIT conversion and the
company's improved operating plan, are forward-looking statements made pursuant
to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Forward-looking statements in some cases can be identified by the use of
words such as "may," "will," "should," "potential," "intend," "expect,"
"endeavor," "seek," "anticipate," "estimate," "overestimate," "underestimate,"
"believe," "could," "would," "project," "predict," "continue," "plan,"
"believe," "propose" or other similar words or expressions. Forward-looking
statements are based on the company's estimates and projections on the date they
are made, and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties. Actual events
and results could differ materially from those anticipated by the company. The
following risks, uncertainties and factors, among others, could cause actual
results or events to differ materially from those expressed in the
forward-looking statements: the company's ability to achieve its strategies and
the results of these strategies; actual log harvest levels and customer and
product focus; the company's dependence on timber resources; changes or growth
in the general domestic and foreign economy, the forest products industry or the
specific markets into which the company sells products; the company's ability to
achieve anticipated improvements in operating results and earnings and expected
cost reductions; risks and costs associated with the restructuring of the
company's manufacturing operations, including the potential divestiture of the
company's sawmill and select converting plants; the company's ability to realize
anticipated benefits from the sale of higher and better use lands; the company's
having sufficient resources to fund operations and meet debt payment obligations
and capital expenditure requirements; the company's working capital needs,
including inventory levels and raw material requirements; unanticipated changes
in pricing and market conditions for the company's products, energy and certain
raw materials, including changes in log, paper, paperboard and converted
products pricing and demand; the company's ability to achieve anticipated
reductions in the amount of natural gas purchased from third parties; the
company's ability to improve reliability and uptime of equipment, creating a
more steady operation and better management of raw material purchases; the
company's ability to achieve anticipated savings and improvements from various
business improvement projects and programs within the expected time frames or at
all; unexpected capital expenditures and the timing of completion and results of
capital expenditure projects; the company's ability to reduce debt and
prioritize the use of excess cash to reduce debt; expected sales of power;
possible effects of changes in currency exchange rates between the U.S. dollar
and currencies of important export markets (particularly Japan); cost of
compliance with environmental regulations and effects of environmental
contingencies, litigation and regulations on the company's financial condition
and results of operations and the company's competitive position; developments
in the world, national, or

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regional economy or involving the company's customers or competitors affecting
supply of or demand for the company's products, energy or raw materials,
including the level of interest rates and new housing starts; implementation or
revision of government policies affecting the environment, import and export
control and taxes; changes in harvest conditions or regulations effecting the
company's timber operations; adverse weather conditions; availability of excess
cash to pay dividends and existence of contractual limitations on the company's
ability to pay dividends; the need to obtain board approval of dividends and
other distributions to the company's shareholders, which approval could be
granted or withheld based on, among other things, the company's results of
operations, cash flow and prospects at the time; unforeseen maintenance on
capital assets; unforeseen developments in the company's business; any
additional material weaknesses in the company's internal control over financial
reporting that may arise or be identified; the company's ability to remediate
material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting; adverse
changes in the capital markets or interest rates affecting the cost or
availability of financing; disasters and other unforeseen events; potential
changes in tax laws affecting REITs that could reduce the tax benefits
associated with being a REIT; the occurrence of events that require a change in
the timing of the company's REIT election; the company's actual pre-REIT
earnings and profits and current-year REIT capital gains could vary from
estimates, resulting in a lower or higher special distribution; the company's
ability to satisfy complex technical rules in order to qualify for or maintain
REIT status and to operate effectively within the limitations imposed by those
rules; and the expected heightened sensitivity of the company's stock price to
the level of dividends on its common stock.

The company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking
statements should circumstances or the company's estimates or projections
change. For additional factors that could impact future results, please see
Longview Fibre's most recent Form 10-K on file with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.

Contacts

L. J. McLaughlin Senior Vice President-Finance Phone: (360) 425-1550

Joele Frank / Eric Brielmann
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher
Phone: (212) 355-4449
Email: ebrielmann@joelefrank.com

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