Timber Sale Draws No Bids

Sat., Aug. 10, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

No bids were submitted for the 400-acre North Gold timber sale in the Boise National Forest, leaving environmentalists pleased and forest managers frustrated.

“We are disappointed that it didn’t sell,” Boise National Forest spokesman Frank Carroll said Friday. “Frankly, one of the reasons may be the media attention today.”

A minimum bid of more than $1.87 million was required for 5.8 million board feet of ponderosa pine and douglas fir in the sale area about 20 air miles northeast of Cascade. A Boise Cascade Corp. spokesman said that was too expensive given the current price of lumber and plywood.

The Alliance for the Wild Rockies argued that the proposed sale would have damaged habitat for bull trout in the Gold Fork River drainage.

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