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Cascadia Forest Defenders Apologizes to Seneca Jones

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(East Hakki Parcel)

We sent out this press release this morning in response to comments made by Kathy Jones of Seneca Jones timber company. To see links to her statements, follow links at the bottom of this post.

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Cascadia Forest Defenders, an organization composed of dozens of community volunteers, would like to express our apologies for causing the owners of Seneca Jones timber company, who are some of the richest and most powerful people in Lane County, to feel so bullied.
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Cascadia Forest Defenders Promise Action on Elliott State Forest Privatization

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To Big Timber,

March 28th is the day that Northwest Realty Auction Company will close its sealed bid auction for almost 3,000 acres of the Elliott State Forest. This auction will permanently transfer parts of the forest from the Oregon Department of Forestry to the private timber company that bids the highest, thus ‘privatizing the Elliott’. Many people and groups have voiced strong protest to this land sale. Conservation groups have threatened to sue any timber company that purchases these lands. Cascadia Forest Defenders will blockade and prevent the extraction of
timber in these parcels. The Elliott is a forest, not private property, and it will remain so.
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