Drake said Siuslaw officials had notified his company promptly about the problems and that G-P expects an offer of replacement timber, “but that has not been identified yet.”

Levi Beelart, the owner of B&G Logging, said his company is out nearly $100,000 in lost production after being pulled off the Porter Thin, a 5.5 million-board-foot timber sale near Florence. That left his crew of 16 equipment operators, riggers, truck drivers and supervisors idle until they could shift to another logging site.

“At 11 o’clock one morning they came up to us and said we needed to stop all operations,” he said. “It took us four days to move to another job, so we lost four days.”

Beelart said he’s been assured the Forest Service will cover his out-of-pocket expenses, but he’s nervous that finding replacement timber for the affected contracts could mean fewer logs available for companies like his a year or two down the road.

Still, he said, the Siuslaw has been a good partner to work with and seems to be doing the best it can to rectify the problem.

“I don’t think it was their fault, necessarily,” Beelart said. “No matter who you are, you’re going to make mistakes. It’s how you deal with them and move forward that matters.”