Believe me, one day they will spot a single flying horny toad and all work will stop to save the species.
There is a very good reason that the lumber industry there all but vanished and “once burned” won’t return freely.
They ought to bring millions of Sierra Club members to ask each tree if it want’s to be converted into lumber. Those that don’t....stay. Those who do continue on to meet a horrible and excruciating death by mechanical “tree death” machines.
/Sarc
This has been a long time in the planning - gone through endless, repetitive EPA, “interested” parties, stake holder road blocks and hoop jumps - the pendulum has begun to slowly swing back. Flagstaff is granola squared, so it’s telling when something as massive as this begins.
Didn’t the president of the Sierra Club built a log home consisting of 2 million logs a few years back? I think so.
That would be the MEXICAN flying horny toads in Arizona. Here in Arizona we slap "MEXICAN" to the name of every "endangered species" the jugheads can come up with. Mexican Spotted owl. The Mexican wolf, etc.