Around here, there is no shortage of pulpwood. The trees are purposefully planted too thick and the weak are turned into paper and the strong are made into saw logs (lumber).
This is called forest management. Kind of Darwinism at its best. The trees compete against each other for the sun. The weaker die, the stronger grow very healthy.
The weaker ones need to be regularly thinned and hauled away.
When they stay, they are perfect fuel for forest fires! Forest fires are nature own way to thin the forest!
Unfortunately, lots of misguided “environmentalists”, media types and lawyers disrupted this cycle and created the disaster we are in now.
Luckily, some of these people are, grudgingly, admitting their errors and letting proper forest management take over.
Too late, too slow!