Industry analysts estimate that more than 20 billion board feet are down, enough to build 1 million houses.
Timber down in Louisiana is worth $900 million; in Mississippi, the felled timber is worth $2.4 billion, experts estimate
enough to build 1 million houses
----Use it then. Save taxpayers a little money so that we can take care of our families instead of every one elses.
It can and will be used but it still isn't free or even inexpensive. The wood has to be harvested at the same cost or more than if it were still upright. Then it has to be transported to saw mills to be cut, kiln dried, planed, sawed and treated before it's ready for commercial use.