Posted on 04/04/2025 8:22:58 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
1. PURPOSE
Executive Order (EO) 14225, Immediate Expansion ofAmerican Timber Production (March 1, 2025), highlights the importance of timber production and how forest management and wildfire risk reduction projects can save American lives and communities. The United States has an abundance of timber resources that are more than adequate to meet our domestic timber production needs, but heavy-handed federal policies have prevented full utilization of these resources and made us reliant on foreign producers.It is vital that we reverse these policies and increase domestic timber production to protect our national and economic security. We can manage our forests to better provide domestic timber supply, create jobs and prosperity, reduce wildfire disasters, improve fish and wildlife habitats, and decrease costs of construction and energy. This Secretarial Memorandum details the actions I am directing the Forest Service to take in response to EO 14225.
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Owls, frogs, snail darters....beware....
Ha, ha, ha, ha...
I do not know if it still in effect, but
several years ago the Federal Department of Agriculture
was offering subsides to people who would convert
their timber-lands to crop production.
It had something to do with production of corn for ethanol.
One of the least productive areas for life is under a pine forest. Nothing but pine needles. Once it is clear cut, there are about ten good years for all wildlife.
I finally completed my 2 year project of
finishing my unfinished basement last year.
I bought a bundle of simple 1” X 2” trim boards
and each one had a sticker on the back that said
“Product Of Chile”.
"Let's go Brandon!"
The reason you have to “clear cut” pine plantations is
because pine seedlings will not grow in the shade.
You have to cut them all down and start over.
Similar to how any annual crop is planted and harvested,
but it takes many years to grow a harvestable pine tree.
Tell that to my mixed pine-hardwood forest that when the loggers did a sawlog cut, they left about ten-fifteen seed pines per acre. The new growth is filling in amongst the big boys.
bttt
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There also needs to be a hierarchy of how resources are used. For example, using high quality lumber for “chip” is wasteful, when it could be made cheaper and better with hemp. Likewise, hemp paper is of much higher quality and longer lasting than wood paper pulp, and also does not require acid bleaching.
And wood for furniture is very hierarchical.
>> Owls, frogs, snail darters....beware....
Yeah, but have you ever tasted snail darter garnished spotted owl breast? Out of this world!
>> Once it is clear cut, there are about ten good years for all wildlife.
And if you DON’T clear cut it and use it, GOD’s perfect Design will eventually kick in and FIRE will take it out.
So “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it”. He made it for *us* to steward and enjoy!
Too late for one of our local mills.
It’s GONE.
Toast.
“...pine seedlings will not grow in the shade...”
I dunno ‘bout dat.
Ponderosa Pine “volunteers” grow like weeds in my “yard”
Lumber Mills sequester Carbon every day.
We have plenty of white-tail and sometimes mule deer and the occasional bighorns cavorting about the Ponderosa Pine infested “yard”.
Note: By training I am a rare books conservator, library preservation, though I never worked in that area. So this is what I was trained to do.
They don’t bleach wood pulp with acid anymore. They use an alkaline solution. And yes hemp has to be bleached unless you want brown “craft paper”. The strongest normal paper is actually made of cotton.
They don’t cut down old growth Forrest or rain forrest for paper mills. This is an old environmentalist lie. There are vast plantations of fast growing trees grown just for paper production. To make good paper they need all the wood in the pulp to be the same variety and age to get uniform fiber length.
From about 1860 to 1960 the paper was highly acidic. That’s why there are very few, if any, first editions of anything left from that period. They’ve all crumbled to dust. But since about 1960 the process has changed to an alkaline one that supplies paper that more durable.
So to you, people that work in timber are the nation’s dregs?
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