The Gary Post-Tribune of Gary, Indiana:

Mitch Friedman has spent most of two decades on the front lines protesting logging in national forests. This time, he decided on a new tack: Buy the trees for $15,000 and set them aside in his own little public forest preserve. He never dreamed Forest Service rules wouldn't allow it. Regulations prohibit the sale of the publicly owned timber to anyone who does not intend to cut the trees.

[Ed.: The federal government lost $14.7 million on below-market timber sales in 1997.]

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