This is one more example of how the Lefties have taken jobs away from Americans through regulation. Weak market demand due to the recession has already caused Weyerhaeuser to layoff workers. This type of wrongheaded litigation from this ruling will insure that jobs will not come back to these areas.
Many of these protected forests have become the domain of pot growers. Oregon is the 10th-ranked marijuana-growing state. These operations are sophisticated with irrigation systems, deer nets and booby traps. The growers know how to plant their crops to evade air surveillance. The pot growers in these areas will continue to grow their pot plants without loggers disrupting their operations.
It is ironic that the tree planting that Weyerhaeuser did in these areas would turn into the habitat for a species of bird that would prevent the harvesting of the trees you planted years ago.
I would doubt this judge would be so blatant as to benefit after she retires, if she retires because she’s a federal judge but then I guess some wouldn’t hesitate.
Many judges on the Ninth Circuit have been making these decisions for years, they’re libtards that are in bed with enviros and a lot of other activist groups.
I’m somewhat familiar with this and the pot thing, we lived in So OR for 15 years and moved there shorty before the spotted owl scam started. That was about time when the sophistictaed pot growing started in the forests also.