Posted on 12/08/2025 12:25:03 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
A procurement forester was preparing to clear timber from part of some 300 acres of Mississippi land in August. But when he passed along the coordinates of the land parcel to the buyer – a standard traceability practice – the buyer suddenly asked a question he wasn’t expecting.
The buyer was Georgia-Pacific, one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of paper, pulp, tissues, packaging and other forestry products, and the predominant buyer of Mississippi-grown timber. But the company had noted that the landowner had converted some land from timber production to another agricultural use in 2024. If the owner had similar plans for this land parcel, Georgia-Pacific said, the company wouldn’t buy any of the cleared timber.
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Behind the increased interest in what landowners plan to do with their land after clearing timber is a proposed rule in the European Union aimed at curbing international deforestation. The regulation is not in effect yet, and likely won’t come into effect until at least the beginning of 2027. It is also not clear whether the U.S. will be subject to the full extent of the regulation after the EU agreed to revisit U.S. producers’ concerns as part of recent trade negotiations.
But major timber exporters like Georgia-Pacific are quietly changing their contracts to ensure their supply chains are compliant, rankling landowners and putting pressure on intermediaries.
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“Of course, Georgia-Pacific is going to go along with it,” Ruffin said. “To me it’s an unconscionable and unalienable right … to put what you want to on your land. And now that’s being restricted by countries outside of the United States.”
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I know this gets into the whole fair trade stuff, and probably meant more for places like Brazil, but EU regulations should not be dictating ti US citizens. That should be US law, imho.
I was given a timber contract to sign that would have clear cut about 200 acres. I noticed the EU rule and decided not to cut anything. Like stated above, I am not giving anyone control of how I use my land.
Years back Santa Cruz County charged me $1500 to rezone an 8 acre parcel to TPZ (timber production) from RA which would have allowed ‘agricultural’ or ‘residential’ so I could harvest timber. TPZ prohibits houses. Social engineering by idiots. They’re now encouraging building so they can suck off the state and federal dollar well, you know.
In Europe, you need a government permission to cut a tree!
So people kill the trees, they do not want, (there is a trick how to do it) and then remove the old tree.
With bigger forests, they just torch them all standing.
These regulations have not saved single tree, but they are restraining people from planting new ones on their lands!
,,, Brussels overreach.
So ban import of EU vehicles and aircraft.
Back in the age of sail, England had a lock on purchase of trees at bargain prices for their fleet. However, if the wind happened to blow a tree over then the owner could do what he wanted with it. Hence the term “wind fall”.
Another example of how the EU is our resl enemy, not Russia.
EU should just change their name to COMECON.
Maybe they had some tricks to simulate tree falling by wind?
I would hook some rope around the tree and try to uproot the tree with horse pull!
I’ve been looking to thin some plantation pine stands for two years now. The price of timber where I am is so low that the mills won’t take it. I’ll just sit on them another year.
I signed a timber sale contract for a oak regeneration cut.
That had some small clear cuts in it.
But then I am not Dealing with GP.
Nothing of such in my contract.
Oh, I so imagine that did happen.
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