Timber sale to benefit schools, county, township (Ohio)

[Robbien]

SWANTON — The Swanton Local School District, Fulton County, and Swan Creek Township will receive more than $25,000 from the sale of timber at Maumee State Forest, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Forestry announced last week.

The division said the school district would be paid $12,878, while the county and township would receive $6,439 each as part of the state’s Trees to Textbooks program.

In all, nearly $2 million will be distributed this year to 16 school districts and 42 local governments from management activities in Ohio’s state forests this year.

Revenue generated from state forests includes royalties from the production of minerals, such as oil and gas, on state land.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041115/NEWS17/41115002/-1/NEWS

[Cocoa]

1. need some wood?

:-)

[bleedingheart]

2. It is all chump change

sorry but the timber companies are the ones making out on this deal and they are throwing some change at the students.

I know a woman who made over $5K on the sale of one large cherry tree that was at least 300 years old. She was heartbroken to have it chopped down but she made a fair amount of cash for just that one tree....

[Robbien]

3. Yes, the article carefully doesn't say how much

is being made by the loggers and how large the logging effort will be. Wonder how much the lobbyists kicked into the politician's re-election kitties.

But hey rejoice, the school gets a couple of grand apiece.

[Cerridwen]

4. "A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down" - n/t

[DeadManInc]

5. Timber sale

Sounds as shady as our Ohio state lottery helping out the schools. Lets rape the national forest for the kids. It's all good. LOL

[Marthe48]

6. Its happened before

About 2 years ago, State of Ohio approved logging in Wayne National Forest. And Frontier Local School District got some money from it. Even the protestors couldn't stop it from going forward.

[Desperadoe]

7. Ohio State Forests

Eastern State Forests should not be compared to Yellowstone, Yosemite or ANWAR. These are relatively small parcels of land within populated states.

Timber sales have been going on in these states for years and it is quite different from selling huge tracts of timber in the western states. This timber is mostly hardwood and is used for paper products and furniture production. It is also done mostly by small, local loggers who barely make a living out of this.

In Pennsylvania the small logging operations almost died in the last 40 years due mostly to the decreasing demand for paper products as recycling became a more popular and acceptable method of production.

This is not an issue that we should be too concerned about. I doubt very much if anyone is getting rich or even making much of a profit.