Source: Roy Keene, Register-Guard, June 4, 2012

The act is a political effort to achieve the de facto privatization of 1.5 million acres of public land. Its aim is to increase logging by decreasing citizen involvement and environmental protection.

The act would privatize federal forestlands in Oregon currently managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. These forests are now subject to citizen comment and the scientifically astute management guidelines of the Northwest Forest Plan.