You Oregon folks, how much timber does Stimson control? I'm familiar with the name, but not the size of their operation. As big as Green Diamond (formerly Simpson) in NorCal/So Oregon? As big as Sierra Pacific Industries? 1/2 million acres? A full million?

Next question. What does Stimson plan to do? It wasn't mentioned in the article? Sell off their OR timberlands and buy in the new location? Ship logs up the Columbia on barges, then truck to ID/MT? (Shaver and the other tug companies would LOVE that!) Or will they just mothball their timberlands and hope for a new regime someday?

Hate to say it, but it's getting harder and harder to find anywhere nice for a relatively conservative outdoorsperson to live/work/retire. Nothing much on either coast. The writing is on the wall for AZ, NM, TX and other states too.

60 folks in Forest Grove will be losing relatively high paying jobs. That's not good for the local area. Sad news.

Geno

The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)

member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?