[4] More than 90 percent of the Elliott State Forest forms part of Oregon Common School Fund (CSF) lands devoted to supporting public education statewide.

[3] (sourced to a dead link) A management plan, adopted in 1995, called for 25 million board feet from 1,000 acres (400 ha), half of it clearcut.

[6][7] The plan also changed the way in which the forest is managed to protect threatened and endangered species such as spotted owls and marbled murrelets.

They would prefer a plan that promotes thinning of young trees, avoids clear-cutting, and seeks other ways of raising revenue from the CSF lands.

At the meeting, DSL director Jim Paul announced the Elliott generated $1.3 million in revenue for the Common School Fund as a preliminary figure.