KLAMATH FALLS (AP) - The Klamath Tribes are trying to buy a 90,000-acre tree farm that was once part of their original reservation, but has long been held by timber companies. Allen Foreman, chairman of the Chiloquin-based tribes, wouldn't give any details of the bid on the Longbell Tree Farm.

"It's in the heart of our former reservation, and it holds a lot of cultural and spiritual significance to the tribes," he said.

Once part of the original Klamath Indian Reservation set up by the treaty of 1864, the land has been logged since the 1920s, when the Longbell Lumber Company used railroads to haul out timber. Weyerhaeuser Co. bought it in 1942, planted pine seedlings on thousands of acres and sold the parcel in 1996 to U.S. Timberlands, which has since become Timber Resource Services.

The reservation was abolished after the tribes were terminated by Congress in 1954. They regained federal recognition in 1986, but don't have a reservation.