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Protesters offer $150K to preserve Yellowwood, DNR sells to logging company for less
From https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2017/11/09/dnr-receives-150-k-offer-preserve-yellowwood-sells-logging-company-less/845631001/ :
Nearly 300 acres will be logged in the Yellowwood State Forest after Indiana's Department of Natural Resources sells 1,700 trees at a timber sale on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017.
Sarah Bowman/IndyStar
Protesters offer $150K to preserve Yellowwood, DNR sells to logging company for less
Sarah Bowman and Emily Hopkins | IndyStar
Updated 6:10 p.m. ET Nov. 9, 2017
With about 200 protesters looking on, timber buyers submitted their bids Thursday to the Department of Natural Resources for their chance to log parts of the Yellowwood Back Country Area. The bids started as low as $70,160 while the winning bid, entered by Sullivan County-based Hamilton Logging, Inc., came in at $108,785.
But there was one intriguing — and more lucrative — offer that wasn't considered.
That offer was delivered by Daniel Antes, founder of Distinctive Hardwood Floors in Brown County. According to a letter read by Antes, hardwood executive Bobby R. Bartlet was willing to pay the DNR $150,000 — not to cut down the trees, but to preserve them for 100 years.
"We want to preserve this public legacy," Antes told IndyStar after the sale. "Our goal was to get the sale to stop and give DNR the funding they're looking for and (they) actually got substantially less than we offered."
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Sarah Bowman and Emily Hopkins | IndyStar
Updated 6:10 p.m. ET Nov. 9, 2017
With about 200 protesters looking on, timber buyers submitted their bids Thursday to the Department of Natural Resources for their chance to log parts of the Yellowwood Back Country Area. The bids started as low as $70,160 while the winning bid, entered by Sullivan County-based Hamilton Logging, Inc., came in at $108,785.
But there was one intriguing — and more lucrative — offer that wasn't considered.
That offer was delivered by Daniel Antes, founder of Distinctive Hardwood Floors in Brown County. According to a letter read by Antes, hardwood executive Bobby R. Bartlet was willing to pay the DNR $150,000 — not to cut down the trees, but to preserve them for 100 years.
"We want to preserve this public legacy," Antes told IndyStar after the sale. "Our goal was to get the sale to stop and give DNR the funding they're looking for and (they) actually got substantially less than we offered."
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It's beautiful! Pristine! Not many areas like it left in the area.
This makes me so angry, I hope this doesn't go through. 