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@efaith77 I would assume the money goes back to the division of forestry to fund their various budget activities - including buying additional land to add to the public land base. And I know that 15% of the proceeds go to the counties in which the timber is cut. There should definitely be recor...

I need to send this to Jack. He will no doubt freak out if he sees a state vechicle in distress. I know from experience.

@BHSdude91 Are you for real, or just trying to rile people up? I have stood on "reclaimed" land numerous times in numerous places, and it grows fescue, lespedeza, and locust, and that is about it. The productivity of these sites is decimated, and when one sees the gray subsoil, shale, and rocks...

@billnye54321 - Do the airport security need a warrant to search my bags? Or my person? Do the state patrol need a warrant to pull you over and peer into your vehicle? Generally yes - a warrant is needed for searching a residence. But I have never understood why a judge signing a piece of pap...

Also - logging leaves tree tops and leaves and the majority of the NPK and other nutrients plants need to grow are found in those parts of the tree - the trunk is mostly fixed atmospheric carbon. So logging does not remove many nutrients from a site. And those trees are not dead from lack of nu...

And I seriously doubt it was an unprofitable sale.

It's a concentration yard for one company - Morin. They bring logs from many different sites there to lay them out and sell them to buyers from mills. If they came from a marked and managed sale, then the forest was left intact. If they came from a rape and pillage job, then not. Indiana grow...

For clarification, Langdon's Cave is in Harrison Crawford State Forest - not Obannon Woods.