The Elliott State Forest sale to private interests for a third of real value, along with the other 2.7 million acres sold cheaply to privateers out of Oregon's original 3.4 million acre federal land grant is what happens when states takes control of federal forests. They become private and then get heavily cut over.

The cut over state of Oregon's industrial forests, much of it acquired through fraud, rail road schemes, and phony land grants, suggest that the federal government should retake control. Under the Feds, these forests would again mature. Denuded watercourses would regain their cover, clarity and fisheries and the wildlife would gradually return.

The beautiful and productive 60,000 acre forest within Fort Lewis, Washington was a heavily cut industrial forest before the Feds recovered it and nursed it back into a valuable mature forest.

Can anyone specifically identify a forests shifted from federal to state control that has prospered and become more valuable over time?