An Oregon company may walk away the new owner of 855 acres of timber in the Haines State Forest. It’s the largest timber sale the state forest has seen in 20 years.
The State Division of Forestry selected Astoria Forest Products, under
Murphy Overseas USA Holdings, in a Dec. 15 auction as the only bidder for the Baby Brown timber sale.
The 20 million board feet of 200-year-old, old growth Sitka spruce and western hemlock…