Once again Ernie is the con artist. Let’s look at the ability to fight fire in the old Biscuit Fire scar this summer. The result was the Chetco Bar Fire which destroyed numerous homes and thousands of acres of private property, and further enlarged the fire scar and will also enlarge the area that is not safe to suppress fire due to snags from unsalvaged fire kill. 
The statement that the sale of fire salvage will suppress private log prices truly shows Ernie’s disconnect from reality,  since there is a significant shortage of logs available from either private or public and numerous mills are on the edge of curtailing operations due to lack of supply. 
I once had the privilege of listening to Ernie speak in person and true to color he attempted to pass off personal misinformation as fact simply because he is an economist..... oh and it must be true because he comes from a family of loggers. REALLY Ernie it’s time to cut out hiding your lies behind an economic degree.