[Beagle8U]

Pacific lumber still owns the property.

Unless you own the land and the timber growing on it you should have no say in the matter.

Your border fence comment is a straw man. You knock him down.

[jdub]

they may own the property, but it appears to me that they sold the right to do with it as they please.

granted, they probably sold it with a gun to their head (sell or we discover some endangered species there that depends on the trees), but they did sell.

there are probably lots of things about this deal that i don't understand, but it sounds similar to selling mineral rights, then using bankruptcy proceedings to declare the sale void so that you can exploit the resource that you sold to someone else. Am I correct in that assumption?