Perhaps the Senators should look back in history at the Northwest Forest Plan.  Then President Clinton held the big media summit of all the federal forest interests in Portland.  Timber interests and the no-cut environmentalists offered their support to the President's proposal to create a "scientific" plan that would increases protections and still allow some logging.  After the plan was finalized with the acres of protected forests more than tripled, proposed harvest levels reduced to about 25% of previous levels, what happened to those "agreements and compromises" from the summit?  The no-cut environmental groups continued to sue almost every timber harvest proposal from the BLM and FS.  Banking on income from Elliott timber harvests to pay back state bonds is fool hardy at best and dishonest at worst.