Thread: Coalition puts forth forest plan
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Old 15-02-2003, 07:15 AM
Larry Caldwell
 
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Default Coalition puts forth forest plan
(Daniel B. Wheeler) writes:

But commissioners in rural counties that receive proceeds from state
logging say the proposal betrays the goals of forests replanted by
volunteers after the famed Tillamook fires decades ago. Counties
turned the lands over to the state, with the expectation that
consistent cutting would generate local dollars, they said.

The only reason the counties ended up with the land was that property
owners could not make property tax payments during the great depression,
particularly after the land burned. The land should be sold off in 160
acre homesteads and the sale proceeds distributed to the counties.

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