Mountain to Ocean (MTO) successfully bid for the package in 2001 competing with over 7 other private entities that did not succeed. One of the conditions of the bidding process and purchase of MTO was that over 45 000 hectares were to be exited from forestry over time ending in 2020. This meant that the MTO asset was to reduce over time to about half its size in plantations. This necessarily meant also that the volume of logs available to saw millers in the area will reduce.