This is what they do in the SE...Most of the the forest are in private hands..
Florida had a wildfire season many years ago and have gone back to control burns..
https://www.envivabiomass.com/
https://www.dogwoodalliance.org/our-work/our-forests-arent-fuel/company-profiles/
https://treesource.org/news/climate/wood-carbon-footprint/
I worked for the Forest Service one summer on MT St Helen...we were bulding logging roads..around 1968...
The roads are probably all over grown fifty years later..just dirt roads..
Wood pellets are also made from lumber mill sawdust. I use wood pellet kittie litter.