Another Oregon mill and forest owner (Longview Fiber recently sold their Oregon forests to a real estate investment trust) has sold their forestland to a global REIT and is selling their mill without its own forests to draw from. 

Whoever buys Rosboro's mill will likely join other mills who've sold or liquidated their private forest to demand increased logging in public forests.

Meanwhile, the new owners will likely cut over what remains of Rosboro's hammered timber lands to pay off all or part of their acquisition costs.

This is becoming a common practice in Oregon, driven by the tax subsidies a REIT offers, global trade agreements, owners and markets focused on short term fiber production rather than long term timber production, and unrestricted harvest rates. It's a win for Wall Street and a loss for Oregon's timber work force and publicly owned forest resources like water, wildlife, and fisheries. 

Reforming harvest taxes and the Forest Practice Act could slow the raiders!