Thanks, interesting article, and I haven’t seen it.
Yes. Cause and effect. Drive the loggers out of business and you shouldn’t be surprised if they’re gone when you need them.
The two most dangerous professions in the world are deep sea fishing and logging. Add political correctness to the equation, and you may not see many loggers in the future.
By the way, dead trees, especially trees that have been dead for a few years, are commonly called widowmakers. You never know when a big chunk may break off the top and land on you, while you’re making the cuts to drop it. I’m not sure I’d want to work in a whole dead forest that the forest service and the greenies have been arguing over for years, while they sit there and get more rotten.
It takes decades to train real professionals for this dangerous, dirty, hard, honest work.
Plus lots of capital for equipment, trucks...
Many small town have been eliminated by decades of eco-rules from the lefties and their political friends.