BLM Shelves Nedsbar Timber Sale
Mail Tribune (September 27, 2016)
The Bureau of Land Management has pulled the controversial Nedsbar timber sale off the table and plans to tweak it in hopes of making it economically viable.

The agency kept the sale open for sealed bids after none came forward during an auction for timber buyers Thursday in Medford. BLM originally intended to keep it open for 30 days, but it opted late Friday to see whether it can make the sale more financially appealing to bidders.The proposal called for logging 3.4 million board feet of timber from small, scattered units, and represented the lion's share of the roughly 5 million board feet of timber the BLM planned to sell as part of the Nedsbar project, which also includes noncommercial forest thinning.

Appraised at $68 per thousand board feet of timber, the sale received no minimum bids of $231,014.60 during Thursday morning's sale, which drew protests by the Applegate Neighborhood Network. The group viewed the sale as too heavy-handed for the land and said it was crafted without addressing community desires.