That is a bald-faced lie.
Canadian stumpage fees are lower than American stumpage fees because the Canadian logging companies have to survey, build maintain and decommission their logging roads, while the USFS builds and maintains the roads for logging in US national forests.
Nice try though. Seems that EVERY lawsuit regarding the forestry/lumber/softwood issue has been settled in favor of Canada, but one side keeps on screaming the canard "unfair!"
Apologies. I’ll do more research and repost/reply after.
After a quick review it’s clear that you are not wrong. I send redwood logs to a local mill. It’s a rather specialized market (decks). In fact, any fir has to be sent to distant mills and the value to me is about zero. I cut some to open the canopy for redwood. Please accept my statement as not a ‘bald-faced lie’ but an ignorant one. I’ll study further.