Ironically, just as the Forest Service is willing to sell, logging companies have shown little interest in Nebraska National Forest timber. They say the price is too high and US Forest Service enviromental regulations are too demanding. We expect a professional looking job when it's all over with. We expect erosion control to have been done. We expect the slash requirements to have been followed.
Private landowners tend to put fewer restrictions on the logging done on their land.
Some landowners quite frankly, don't care. Doak Nickerson is the District Forester with the Extension Service in northwest Nebraska. Lately he's spent almost all of his time educating private landowners on the proper forest management. Sure they do, yeah, abosoltely. When there have been problems in Nebraska, it has not been so much what's been cut as what's been left behind.