Business Segment Information - Additional Information (Detail)	9 Months Ended
Jul. 31, 2013 acre Segment
Segment Reporting [Abstract]
Number of operating segment	5
Number of reportable business segment	4
Measurement area of timber properties in the south eastern United States which are actively managed in acres	269,100
Measurement area of timber properties in Canada which are not actively managed in acres	11,850

Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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