Lew, let's also note that the national forests are a "strategic" timber reserve, presumably to combat against the threat of "radical Islamists" cornering the market in paper products and log cabins.
Even though they are so badly managed that significant portions of them burn up every few years, the national forests are certainly in no danger of being sold. They are instead being made off limits to human beings for the sake of whatever species of zero interest happens to have been recently declared endangered.
