A husband-and-wife-owned forestry company is accused of duping an elderly New Jersey man into signing a bogus contract and then decimating his family’s 321 acres of forestland along the Pacific Coast near Bandon, according to a federal lawsuit.
More than 260 acres were cut by Pro Forestry Consulting and its subcontractors, allowing the company to sell about 2 million board feet of logs for about $1.7 million in revenue, the suit alleges.
Of that, the family landowners received “absolutely nothing,” attorney Michael E. Haglund wrote in the suit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Eugene…