Just as automobile manufacturing used to provide decent jobs for kids with no college in the Rust Belt, wood products used to provide decent jobs for kids with no college in the Northwest.
Now, one Democrat Senator’s kid has a job counting Spotted Owls.
Wow! What a concept! Salvage the remaining dead but usable timber after a catastrophic forest fire. Here’s another idea: harvest selected timber BEFORE there’s a catastrophic forest fire.
The only thing the USFS got good at was putting steel and concrete gates on the entrances to 1000’s of USFS roads throughout the Northwest. Blocked off millions of acres from use by the taxpayers who paid their wages. 50% of the USFS employees were worthless and lazy slugs.
> ...the amount of federal timber available for sale in most of America’s national forests...
Funny, I don’t recall in Federal forests in the Constitution. Might be out of date.
To paraphrase: Give Fedzilla the Sahara and there would be lack of sand in 5 yrs.