Oh, right, the Elliot.
Don't insult me with that false canard, Pointer.
The Elliot was MAKING MONEY until the ENVIROS sued to have restrictions imposed for either the murrelet or the dotted phoul, I forget which.
But the CORE REASON the ESF is on the sale block is because environmentalist litigation -- even the Oregonian's editorial board (not exactly a producer-friendly entity) pointed out this bitter fact.
Fact:
"The case began in 2012, when the Audubon Society of Portland, Cascadia Wildlands and Center for Biological Diversity sued the Oregon Department of Forestry to halt timber sales on 1,956 acres in the Elliott, Clatsop and Tillamook state forests."
And yeah, it was the murrelet. The commie Governor is now trying to have a public bond floated for a park, to save it. And is she reaming the litigants for their shortsighteness? No, she's a commie, remember?
So, are these green groups anteing up? Heck no, there's no accountability for them. Doesn't cost THEM anything.
And let me remind you of something ELSE that was just criminal. The Tillamook, burnt abandoned forest, home of the infamous Seven Year Jinx of repeated fires from 1930 on, the state floated bonds in the 1950s to take over and replant the lands, nobody cared except dirt bikers until the forest came SCREAMING back.
Been there, done that, with the aging foresters who are seeing a lifetime of work finally pay off. In spades. To anyone with a clue about forestry, the Tillamook is the gold standard of long-term, sustained yield forestry. Just wonderful,stupendous. A fabulous example of forestry done right BY THE AFFECTED STATE.
So what do the moron Greens want? They wanted to turn it into a wilderness, basically. To stop doing forestry, close off the trail networks to everyone but hikers, let it burn in the next drought.
There was a ballot issue, and it failed, thank God. Even in Oregon.
The sick truth is that ESF would not be on the block for sale to private owners (not constrained by the terms of the litigation) were it not for the eco-idiots.
And the not-sickening truth is, state forestry departments do, in toto, a good, even GREAT job of forestry and habitat managment on state lands.
Sorry, but some of you "sportsmen" really need to get out of the scope and start looking at the big picture and where your problems really originate. Who, pray tell, are your real enemies?
