[PapaBear3625]

My theory is their superiors want all the trees in the west to burn so we can see an up tick in CO2 (trees love CO2 in case you didn’t know that) and be able to scream gloBULL warming.

My theory is that owners of private timber land (Weyerhaeuser, for example, owns 13 million acres of private forest) don't want the competition from public forests.

[3boysdad]

Yeah I’ve heard that one too. There’s also the theory that it’s all about water conservation - let the trees burn so there will be water. Who really knows, but we do know they’re horribly managed.

[crz]

There is a whole lot of truth to that.

[PIF]

My theory is that owners of private timber land (Weyerhaeuser, for example, owns 13 million acres of private forest) don’t want the competition from public forests.

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Not a theory ... a long gone friend on mine looked into that situation in the late 1990s, and, low and behold, who do you imagine was supplying the lion’s share of funding to the anti-logging environmentals?

Weyerhaeuser, Boise Cascade, Georgia-Pacific Corp, International Paper, Rayonier, Sierra Pacific Industries ...

[Mariner]

Having once worked for Weyerhaeuser I can tell you their forest lands do NOT burn.

And their trees are worth billions and billions.