re: "And it will be denuded of trees or would the sale prevent that?"
By the way, when they log land, they don't "denude" it. They thin it out - so that trees will be 75 feet apart instead of 15. The loggers make a huge mess with all the woodchips, sawdust and stumps, but nature and a little help (drilling holes in the stumps so ice can get in and split them) takes care of that with amazing speed.
If you pay the loggers, they'll re-seed the forest too.
In five years, the land is arguably much prettier, more passable, and has useful logging roads to boot.
My complaint, though, is that if the owner logs the land, *I* can't log the land. It's got a quarter million board feet of lumber.
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