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April 22, 2014
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Conservation groups have gone to court to block the sale of a portion of the Elliott State Forest to a private timber company.
The lawsuit filed Monday in Lane County Circuit Court in Eugene argues that a 1957 law prohibits the state from selling any portion of the Elliott that had previously been part of a national forest. It notes most of the 788-acre Hakki Ridge parcel was part of the Siuslaw National Forest until 1913, when it was part of a land exchange that created the Elliott. That parcel was sold to Seneca Jones Timber Co. last week for nearly $2 million.
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