The McCannon Timber Sale in Lewis County is one of the oldest Legacy Forests up for logging on Washington State Department of Natural Resource Trust Lands. The forest re-generated from logging in the 1900s and is now over 100 years old. It contains old-growth trees marked for cutting. It and all other legacy forests like it deserve protection, to get involved visit c4rf.org
As of November 2022 this timber sale has not beed auctioned off.
The Baltimore Plot Timber Sale in Lewis County is a spectacular Legacy Forests up for logging on Washington State Department of Natural Resource Trust Lands. The forest re-generated from logging in the early 1900s and is now around 100 years old. It was probably one of the most spiritually vibrant second growth forests I've ever been in, with massive Douglas Fir stumps covered in gardens of ferns throughout the timber sale. This legacy forest deserves to be left alone to become an old-growth forest.
In December 2022 this timber sale was sold to Hampton Tree Farms for $4,179,089.66
The Quiver Timber Sale in Grays Harbor County is one of the oldest Legacy Forests up for logging on Washington State Department of Natural Resource Trust Lands. The forest re-generated from logging in the 1800s and is now around 140 years old. It, and all other legacy forests like it deserve protection, to get involved visit c4rf.org
As of October 2022 this timber sale has not been approved for auction.
The Brown's Corner Timber Sale in Pacific County is a Legacy Forests up for logging on Washington State Department of Natural Resource Trust Lands. The forest re-generated from logging in the early 1900s and is now around 100 years old. It, and all other legacy forests like it deserve protection, to get involved visit c4rf.org
In November 2022 this timber sale was sold to Murphy Company for $461,025.93.
The Sprinter Timber Sale in Thurston County is a Legacy Forests up for logging on Washington State Department of Natural Resource Trust Lands in Capital State Forest. The forest re-generated from logging in the early 1900s and is now around 100 years old. It, and all other legacy forests like it deserve protection, to get involved visit c4rf.org
In November 2022 this timber sale was sold to the Stella Jones Corporation for $2,333,582.67.
The Sure Wood Timber Sale in Mason County is a Legacy Forests up for logging on Washington State Department of Natural Resource Trust Lands in the Sherwood State Forest. The forest re-generated from logging in the early 1900s and is now around 100 years old. It, and all other legacy forests like it deserve protection, to get involved visit c4rf.org
This timber sale has not been approved for auction as of March 2023.
The Baby Brown Timber Sale north of Haines Alaska in the Chilkat valley is made up of over 1000 acres of pristine old growth hemlock forest. The state of Alaska has been trying to auction off this section of forest for years, in 2020 they succeeded in selling the rights to log this area for a measly $400,000 to a timber company in Oregon. The timber company eventually backed out of the deal due to the areas remoteness however there is good reason to think that the state of Alaska will keep pushing to clear-cut this forest. The initial minimum bid on the Baby Brown timber sale was only about $150,000, the whole point of this timber sale is to just cut for the sake of cutting, The state of Alaska would literally be receiving $150 per acre of old growth cut. Not $150,000, $150.
As of October 2022 there has been no new news about this timber sale being put up for auction.
The Jupiter Access Timber Sale is a Legacy Forest on State Trust Lands on the south eastern Olympic Peninsula on the border of the Olympic National Forest (Jefferson County). The timber sale is comprised of several cut blocks on the extremely steep slopes of Jupiter Mountain. This legacy forest is almost certainly spotted owl habitat yet the DNR sold this timber sale in late 2021 and the Murphy’s logging company is actively Road building there now.
As of October 2022 this area hasn’t been clear-cut.
The Tip Top Timber Sale in the Tahuya state forest west block (Mason county) consisted of several massive clear cuts above Rendsland Creek and the community of Tahuya. Despite substantial public opposition by community members around Rendsland Creek and Mason County, including a petition that received over 2000 signatures, the area was sold to Murphy’s logging company and clear-cut in 2021.
The Chameleon Timber Sale in capital state forest (Thurston county) was a legacy forest sold to the Murphy’s logging company in 2020, there was massive opposition to this timber sale which destroyed one of capital state forests few remaining legacy forests. Activist set up a tree sit in the unit before logging began, however the protest came to an abrupt halt when police set up a 24 seven perimeter around the tree where the tree sitter was sitting.
The tree sitter came down after about a week and the forest was logged.
