A timber industry dot-bomb

Fascinating story in the Eugene Register-Guard about the unravelling of an ill-fated land swap program that reads like a dot-com bomb-out set at the intersection of the timber industry, the federal government and our public lands. And Slade Gorton (of course) was the one who enabled this boondoggle which blew through $6 million with not a thing to show for it.

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