BLM Sells Nearly Two Million Board Feet of Timber, March 28

Timber Sale, BLM release.  On Friday, March 23, the Coos Bay District of the Bureau of Land Management sold 1.96 million board feet of timber, worth $239,712.40, at an oral auction, as the BLM supports working landscapes across the West. 3H Forestry and Land Management was the high bidder for the “Llewellyn” commercial thin timber sale. The timber is located on Oregon and California Revested (O&C) Lands in Coos County. There was one other qualified bidder for the sale. The money from this timber sale will be deposited into the federal O&C fund. The 18-western Oregon counties that contain O&C lands receive 50 percent of the receipts from the sale of forest products off of O&C lands each year. The Oregon and California Railroad Revested Lands, known as the O&C Lands, lie in a checkerboard pattern through eighteen counties of western Oregon. These lands contain more than 2.4 million acres of forests with a diversity of plant and animal species, recreation areas, mining claims, grazing lands, cultural and historical resources, scenic areas, wild and scenic rivers, and wilderness. For additional information on the Bureau of Land Management’s timber program, please visit https://www.blm.gov/or/resources/forests/index.php