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The Logging Co and the National Forest Service have been doing these land trades for a long time. From what I have observed, they often trade on an acre for acre basis, and they will often trade for the logged land back in a few years, when it is no longer of use to the logging company. Not to be negative, as sometimes this is the only way to get past the enviros. (According to conversations with some of the loggers).

In some of the National Forests, the logging co.s do most of the road maintenance, and fire patrol, especially if they are logging in those areas and I believe this also is reciprocated by the trade of unlogged National Forest parcels.