The state. They sell off chunks of it to private logging companies. They bulldozed the "bigleaf trail" from where our A-meet start was for about 1 km to the rocky spur east, and cut a side road about 200m along the indistinct path into the nice area. There was a big flat bowl-shaped area with a terrace and a pair of boulders on it that they decided to use as a staging area. It was bulldozed flat - the terrace is gone and the boulders were pushed to the side. They used another terrace farther up as a skidder platform. The worst part is there are blue marks all over the remaining trees and some "timber sale area" signs at the end of the new "road." Its a real shame. Of all the places to cut up there it had to be this one sweet spot?!?
Here are some
photos of the newly logged area, and a few of some unlogged areas. The last few shots of rocks with graffiti are Hammonds Rocks itself, which gets lots of "traffic" since its next to a road.