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”.
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.