If the Elliott would have been managed properly, according to its unique mission statement... to maximize funding to K12... not to provide timber to local mills, we might not be at this juncture point in its fate.

The state could have cut a third of the timber for three times the dollar return had they taken advantage of the export value of the older timber. This would have maximized both dollars and habitat.
I say this as an ex timber cruiser who has marketed export timber for private coastal forest owners.

Of course, they'd still have some greedy enviro attorneys to pay off.

As are you, I'm against any and all privatization of public lands. I'm also against subsidizing private industry with public timber.

Had the private industry lands in the coast ranges been managed truly sustainably, the Elliott would not be the sole surviving habitat for endangered species. And there would still be mature timber for local saw mills.