Posted on 06/15/2025 6:27:48 AM PDT by Libloather
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Timber once drove the economies of states like Oregon. But forest harvests nosedived beginning in the early 1990s due to stricter environmental regulations, a changing lumber market and other factors.
President Donald Trump hopes to reverse that trend by executive fiat, ordering the U.S. Forest Service to ramp up logging on federal lands in what environmental groups like Earthjustice call a "cynical attempt to justify destructive logging."
"It's really just about lining the pockets of timber industry executives," Blaine Miller McFeely, a senior legislative representative at Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law group, told Fox News Digital.
The timber slump Controversial logging methods like clear-cutting that were popular as settlers moved west drew vast public backlash starting around the 1970s. Environmental legislation, particularly the Northern spotted owl's designation as endangered in 1990, dealt a crippling blow to logging on federal lands.
The amount of timber harvested on Forest Service land has decreased nearly 80% since reaching a high in 1987, according to government data.
That's had a severe impact on timber towns.
Tyler Freres, whose grandfather opened the family's first sawmill back in 1922, said federal agencies used to offer 200 million board feet for timber production in Oregon's Santiam Canyon. Now, he said, that's down to 1 million board feet per year.
"I remember as a child the amount of prosperity that existed within our rural communities," Freres said. "There was a lot of timber dollars flowing back in the day and those dollars went directly into our local services."
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>>federal agencies used to offer 200 million board feet for timber production in Oregon’s Santiam Canyon. Now, he said, that’s down to 1 million board feet per year.
Is there a fort or other needful building in Santiam Canyon? If not, then why does the federal government own the land? They should sell it off to private owners.
“”””But forest harvests nosedived beginning in the early 1990s due to stricter environmental regulations”””””
And now people who loved those regulations are constantly whining about the high cost of houses.
That an owl could put an industry out of business is absurd. People first!! Owls will find a new home. It’s not like the only place on earth where they can live.
Psalm 19:1-2 (King James Version)
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
It is time for Oregonians to get on their phones and letters to tell your state Reps to vote no against the Cap-and-Trade bill. The ones who are going wobbly are Bruce Starr, Kevin Mannix, Kim Wallen, Christine Drazan, and Jeff Helfrich who are willing to negotiate chopping their voters heads off at the eyebrows rather than the neck. There is no honor in losing by ten points rather than twenty.
This bill is going to tax everything that moves and half of what doesn’t. You are going to see anything they don’t like such as efficient oil, NatGas, Propane, and electricity triple in cost within three years to get themselves past the next election. It is going to make diving cars and trucks more difficult in an already car-hating state and going to punish you at the registration.
The Democrat Communist Party is always claiming to be champions of the little guy but who is going to be hurt the worst with confiscatory heating and cooking prices. Who is going to be hurt with charging another fifty cents a gallon on gas so they can waste it on their windmill and choo choo train boondoggles. This is drastically going to raise food prices on the middle and lower classes, driving them into poverty and out of their homes. You need to tell the Repubs to not give the Dims cover on this when people are feeling the full effect of their complete mismanagement of Oregon’s resources.
It is time to sell Oregon’s land. All of these oppressive taxes are caused by their closing of the forests. They closed the forests down to give more land than the Biden administration required for the Spotted Owl by around double and then repeated Climate Change fifty times. There was not one page of science and nothing more than their pagan worship of the earth and now every Oregonian is forced to tithe to their pagan gods through Cap and Trade.
There is no reason to punish Oregonians with this massive tax increase if they were to manage the state resources effectively. This would be the wealthiest state in the union if not for these politicians. They have to stand up and say there is no such thing as manmade Climate Change which is really weather. There is no reason for Oregon to commit suicide over a myth invented by Al Gore who was a divinity school dropout. How do you flunk Bible School? Did he get caught cheating ? Yet, Oregon is willing to destroy its entire massive rural economy for this false prophet.
Even people in Oregon are moving away from these crazy ideas and towards Trump’s common sense. Their days are numbered before they are voted out of office and then clean up the election fraud. We need to call and write these Repubs as well as your own Communist to let them know you are not buying Climate Change any longer and they have to understand it is a giant scam to tax people out of their houses and cars. You do not have to threaten them but remind them Oregon will be wide open for anyone who stands up against these tax and burn politicians who are willing to make life harder on people rather than helping. Remind them this is nothing more than a religion and you do not want to worship the Creation rather than the Creator with your tithes and taxes.
It is time to sell the 10,000 square miles of land the state has locked up. This would generate revenues for the state and alleviate the people while making the lands more maintained ending these massive wildfires which have been plaguing the state. It is the real solution to their financial and forest crisis destroying the state. Call these Reps to let them know you expect them to vote no on massive taxes on their voters.
Pray for Stopping Cap and Trade
Yeah the spotted owl claim was all BS. If the eco terrorists start up again they should be shot on the spot. Friggin A-hole caused more destruction of the forest and wildlife than loggers ever will. Hell even th Tahoe basin was clear cu to provide lumber for the mines and you could never tell.
Yeah the spotted owl claim was all BS. If the eco terrorists start up again they should be shot on the spot. Friggin A-hole caused more destruction of the forest and wildlife than loggers ever will. Hell even th Tahoe basin was clear cu to provide lumber for the mines and you could never tell.
Holocaust level forest fires good.
The Spotted Owl is being eaten by the Barred Owl into extinction. The logger has nothing to do with it. It is a complete fraud to kill the lumber industry.
Hannah Ray didn’t do due diligence as to what Earthjustice actually *Is*.
Umm, your comment is a bit strange. You seem to suggest that treehuggers and other trash are capable of connecting lack of timber to higher price of housing. ??
Umm, what kind of treehugger, commie trash clowns do you interact with? My experience is that such are either religiously unwilling or intellectually incapable of seeing actions vs consequences. But, then, I do live in CaCaLand where the bottom of the barrel types flourish.
Trees: The Renewable Resource.
Gone are those days thanks to leftist indoctrination.
It is the cleanest industry by environmental standards, but that is not enough for the Communists, they hate industry period.
If only it were that simple. Can you imagine what would happen to the timber business if the State of Oregon or Washington were in sole control? While it is true that true federalism would eventually betray the foolishness of "hands off" management, that lesson would come at a huge price to local communities there.
I have a pet peeve in timber management, which is transport of weed seed and other pests. I'd like to see a lot more energy on that. FedGov Inc. allowed the import of the "shot hole borer" in recent years likely to do immense damage to our local ecology. If Trump wanted to emplace means to support timber workers, control of exotic pests in lumber would be at the top of my list.
Owls and all other raptors are super adaptable. See how falcons love tall buildings in the cities and munch on the abundant pigeons.
We have to redefine trees as big weeds. Chop them down and grow more.
One of the best shots to the economy would be for massive logging permits on Federal land. Especially the huge swaths of standing dead timber killed by insects.
“Destructive logging bad.
Holocaust level forest fires good.”
But that is the thing. They are not going to be allowed to clear cut. It will be selective thinning which will help prevent the fires and give predatory birds more room to fly and hunt ground fodder.
It is actually better for both. The all or nothing radical extremism of the environmentalists is actually more harmful to the environment compared to common sense “multiuse”.
Crucify those that spike trees on the trees they spike.
These timber protestors are paid low life scum.
I fully support intelligent management of our resources. My comment was to illustrate the mental defectiveness of the wackos. They think ALL logging is bad. Yet, when presented with evidence of the catastrophic damage which is done because of poor management of forests, they don’t care.
That an owl could put an industry out of business is absurd.
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Not just owls, but eagles and marbled murrelets as well
Eagles and murrrelts nest in old growth forest according to the protestors
But eagles nest in any tall tree near a food source, while murrelets do not nest in trees art all, but in the borrows they dig in the ground.
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