Trump looking to log national forests

it will piss off a Canadians that moved to fill the demand 13 years ago

If he thinks building costs are high because of a lack of lumber, then I’m ashamed of my vote.

Oh, nice. Already having hell moving timber. Let’s throw even more dirt cheap wood on the market. On top of that, who’s gonna monitor harvesting activities? They going to rehire all the people they let go?

National forests were originally established with the intent to provide timber for the nation.

And out west there aren’t enough mills There are millions and millions of acres to log but it’s not worth it having to drive 200 miles to The nearest mill and the specialized equipment it takes to log

National Forest are Department of Ag so I never understood why they weren't managed for logging. I would have exceptions for wilderness areas.

There’s been thinning of KNF timber for probably ten years now, and an occasional clearcut. I like it because it promotes more thickets.

Kisatchie National Forest is thinned or logged nearly every year in sections. The forest service here also does a really good job with maintaing fire breaks and doing controlled burns as well. This needs to be instituted in other areas of the country that don't practice the same forest management as around here. Like other posters have said, to at least allow companies to go in and get dead and fallen trees out, or thin out pine beetle damaged trees would help a lot with wild fire danger. That was said over and over again about California for years.

Good.

I am what one would call, graciously, a hobby miller. I am currently in the process of milling 77,000 board feet of southern yellow pine that is 60+ years old. I am doing that massive amount because there is no market for it standing, fallen or milled. None. Hard to find anyone who would haul it off for a price, let alone buy it. All of it came off a 3/10th of an acre lot, typically wooded for east Georgia. The only reason I am milling it is because I hated to put it in a landfill....and hated even more paying to put it in a landfill.

I have milled about 3000 bf of it and it is down to about 15% moisture content. It is straighter and truer than ANY lumber sold in any lumber yard in Georgia. Its also true dimensioned. There is no market for it at all. Not even in the surrounding counties where there are no or pretty lax building codes. The market is already awash in timber.....its kiln dried grade stamped lumber that is relatively scarce and expensive. The lumber I am sitting on is higher quality green than most is when kiln dried and graded but the magical grade stamp, applied by an employee of the mill, makes the stuff sold at Home Depot superior to anything....it is that stamp that matters, not the tree, not the miller, nothing but that stamp.