Yep, the Dems engineered this whole sale including setting the give way price.

Yes, the Elliott is often a yarding show rather than a cheaper tractor operation in Farmer Johns scattered second growth patch. But the stands ( and I've measured as well as walked more than a few)  being yarded are often 80 MBF to the acre instead of Farmer John's 20 MBF. Plus you get 6MBF on a truck instead of 4MBF. Yarding heavily stocked mature timber with plenty of lift ends up not being all that more expensive.

Since the Elliott's mission was to uniquely fund K12, not to supply local mills, why, pray tell, didn't the state export the 12o year old premium JSort logs for three times the average per MBF price they were getting from Scott or Seneca... both of whom have supposedly "sustainably managed" vast forest of their own?

I followed a couple of truck loads into Roseburg with a logger a few months ago and we both agreed the high grade 1oo year old logs should have been going to Coos Bay's docks.