Heaven forbid you cur some of the millions of dead trees into firewood or home brew timber, Californica will hammer you into the ground like a tent post. You have to let it lay there and rot. Or buy a timber harvest permit and file environmental impact statements.
Once long ago America was free, now the Fascists own everything. And that is why Nobody is cleaning up the billions of board feet of lumber that is laying everywhere.
We used to export large numbers of logs from Tongass Natl Forest in Alaska to China but because of Trump’s Trade War China buys them in Russia now.