Sequestering public forests so as to prevent logging to supply "for profit"  sawmills is  parallel to not  spending public money to provide health care,  the raw material  "for profit"   medical providers.  

In the case of the Elliott,  Congress set up the lands for education gift to Oregon (and other Western  States) as a part of Statehood.  That those lands that were not sold or leased became the province of  NGO's in de facto takings of their economic purpose,   is telling about the  completeness of the Urban-Rural split  and the tyranny of the urban majority.   At least rural Oregon now has the ten cent bottle return,  doubling the revenue for the bottle searchers.