Senator Gordon Smith "Valued" Timber that directly involved The Campbell Group and Obsidian Finance Group. Blogger Crystal Cox alleges that Senator Gordon Smith connections with Judge Marco Hernandez and Judge Michael Simon aided and abetted Judge Marco Hernandez to rule unconstitutionally and unlawfully in Obsidian V. Cox. And for Judge Marco Hernandez to deny due process, and constitutional rights to Pro Se Defendant Blogger Crystal Cox.

"6) The report, released by U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., placed the value of the timber that could be legally and profitably cut immediately after the fire at about $171.8 million. It said about $32.3 million of that has been recovered to date.

The report said information “shows clearly that 42 percent of the volume per acre has been lost since late 2002,” largely from decay. However, the thought of logging the area is anathema to many scientists and environmentalists who say the best way to help the area recover is to leave it alone. Rolf Skar, with the Cave Junction-based Siskiyou Project conservation group, disagreed. “There has never been a single injunction on a single roadless area in Biscuit,” he said. He said the report is top-heavy with economic concerns and does not address such costs as maintaining replanted areas, fire risk and recreation loss.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1142565911265060.xml&coll=7"  - Note, the Oregon Seems to have Pulled the Article, in my Opinion, in connection to Jeff Manning FRIEND of Kevin Padrick, Obsidian Finance Group.

Source
http://forestpolicyresearch.com/2006/03/20/076oec%E2%80%99s-this-week-in-trees/

"Oregon:

4) Unless you’re a keen observer of the forest products business, you might have been surprised this month to see that the bidders for Longview Fibre Co. and its 587,000 acres of timberland were two obscure Portland investment companies. Who are these guys with their $1.72 billion offer? Turns out that The Campbell Group, which wants Longview’s trees, is one of the largest private timberland owners in the country. And its partner in the Longview bid, Obsidian Finance Group, is led by a coterie of lawyers who once cut deals for now-defunct Willamette Industries.

The forest products industry is changing quickly, if quietly, and several Portland companies are in the thick of it. “Just as oil and gas fund managers are concentrated in Dallas, Houston and Denver, and high-tech fund managers are concentrated in Silicon Valley, Portland is a natural location for timberland fund managers,” said Matt Donegan, who, as co-president of Forest Capital Partners, is among those fund managers.

Historically, old-school timber giants such as International Paper Co. and Louisiana-Pacific Corp. managed vast empires that included both mills and forestland. But tax and business changes over the past decade encouraged specialization, and companies increasingly split ownership of the trees from production in the mills.

Enter privately held timber-investment management organizations, or TIMOs, which are quickly overtaking traditional publicly traded companies as owners of the nation’s timberland.

At their peak, International Paper, Louisiana-Pacific, Georgia-Pacific Corp. and Boise Cascade Corp. owned more than 25 million acres.

TIMOs and other nonmanufacturing firms now own nearly all of those lands, with the exception of International Paper’s holdings, which are being auctioned off. TIMOs are expected to be among the highest bidders.

Pension funds are the biggest investors in TIMOs nationwide, as they seek a hard asset that seems less volatile than stocks and that works well as a long-term investment. Federal tax rulings in recent years have allowed nonprofit endowments to invest in TIMOs with the same favorable tax treatment they have with stock-market investments, adding to the investors seeking timberland. “So the timber companies have worked for hundreds of years to build these tree farms in Oregon and Washington,” Atterbury said. “Now, that is being broken up. . . . Is it going to get the same treatment? It’s a question.”

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1142479533310000.xml&coll=7

5) Douglas County plans to take a direct role in helping the Bureau of Land Management develop new management policies for forest lands in Western Oregon. The county has commissioned the College of Forestry at Oregon State University — at a cost of $105,000 — to formulate a harvest scheduling model using geographic information systems, vegetation data and harvesting prescriptions developed by the BLM.

The model would be used to evaluate different management strategies for reducing fire hazards in BLM forests, including more than 600,000 acres of Oregon & California Railroad trust lands managed by the agency in Douglas County.

The approach will give the county a much stronger voice than it has had in the past on a major policy decision, Douglas County Commissioner Doug Robertson said. It resulted from agreements signed with both the BLM and the U.S. Forest Service giving the county cooperator status.

The O&C lands included all odd-numbered sections of land, not including those with mineral deposits, within 20 miles of each side of the proposed rail line. The land grant was provided to give the railroad the cash to build its line by selling individual parcels. The unsold parcels were later reclaimed by the federal government after the O&C Railroad and later Southern Pacific violated terms of the land grant.

Active federal management of the properties began with the passage of the O&C Act. Douglas County contains the largest acreage of O&C lands — 618,000 acres. Jackson County has 390,00 acres, followed by Josephine County with 259,000 acres.

The OSU team will be led by John Sessions, the author of the Douglas County-commissioned report on the aftermath of the 2002 Biscuit Fire in southern Oregon. Sessions was criticized recently for trying to quash an article by an OSU graduate student before it appeared in Science magazine.

Daniel Donato, a student in the School of Forestry, suggested that commercial logging harms forest recovery in the first years after a fire because young seedlings get trampled. Commissioner Dan Van Slyke said he was very satisfied with Sessions’ work on the Biscuit study and said the county will benefit by having his crew work on the current project. "

http://www.newsreview.info/article/20060317/NEWS/60317010

Source of Post
http://forestpolicyresearch.com/2006/03/20/076oec%E2%80%99s-this-week-in-trees/


Public Lands, BLM, I think were simply given to Obsidian Finance Group, I Believe, so they could create Oregon's largest Solar Project.  Obsidian Finance Group, IS Obsidian Renewables, Outback Solar, the Black Cap Project and many more connected Solar Companies owned by Obsidian Finance Group, Kevin Padrick and David W. Brown.

PacifiCorp purchased the Black Cap Project I believe, and signed wattage contracts with Obsidian Finance Group for Millions a year for 20 years. This was made possible by what seems to be Free Land, and 15 Million Dollars in Grants. 10 Million in Oregon BETC Credits and 5 Million from Oregon Energy Trust, of which, I believe that PUBLIC FIGURE, David W. Brown is on the board.

Obsidian Finance Group is an Investment Firm dealing in Timber REITS, Solar REITS, Mutual Funds and investments that heavily involve the Solar, Utility and Timber Business. Obsidian Finance Group is of PUBLIC Interest. Judge Marco Hernandez acted in Conspiracy to Protect the Interests of Portland Oregon Law Firms Tonkon Torp, Perkins Coie, Sussman Shank, and Miller Nash.

Judge Marco Hernandez acted in Conspiracy to Protect the Interests of Portland Oregon Judge Michael Simon who was a Creditor Attorney from Perkins Coie Law Firm during the Summit Bankruptcy and in one of the high profile lawsuit involving Oregon's Biggest Bank, Umpqua Bank. Judge Marco Hernandez did not disclose connections to the Summit Bankruptcy, as Judge Marco Hernandez is connected to Judge Michael Simon. This is Criminal and will soon be in my Criminal Complaint to the Department of Justice, FBI, SEC, and Attorney General.

Judge Marco Hernandez knew full well that Obsidian Finance Group is of Public Concern, yet Judge Marco Hernandez deliberately created a way for Obsidian Finance Group to easily win a defamation lawsuit against Blogger Crystal Cox, because I was exposing information that, should it be believed, and get "wind", would hurt Oregon's Biggest Law Firms and Utility Companies as well as harm the interests of Judge Michael Simon, Senator Ron Wyden and Senator Gordon Smith.  It is believed that Senator Gordon Smith is related to William Smith of Bill Smith Properties Bend Oregon, whom recommended Obsidian Finance Group to the Summit Principals.

Investigative Blogger Crystal Cox has owned her own real estate company for 10 years and has a Degree In Forestry. Crystal Cox has owned several businesses, ran a development company building homes, and is very experienced at Search Engine Reputation Management.

Investigative Blogger Crystal Cox has been giving voice to victims of corruption for around 7 years now.  Investigative Blogger Crystal Cox knows the Summit Bankruptcy case better then any "Media" source.  Blogger Crystal Cox claims that there are many deals involving Solar Companies, Politicians, Commissioner, Lawyers and more that are not lawful or ethic. Investigative Blogger Crystal Cox continues to pursue all involved in the Summit Bankruptcy Scandal.