Larry Caldwell wrote in message t...
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My hubby worked in a mill in down in Riddle for nearly 15 years. They did
nothing but special cuts. That included metric cuts. Shipped many loads over
seas. That wasn't their reason for problems. Your more extreme
environmentalists (like Andy Kerr) made the diameter of harvestable timber
resemble the size of a toothpick (used to call them poles). Can't go in and
salvage good timbers in burned areas anymore either.

Don't blame Andy Kerr for the toothpicks. The USFS and BLM didn't start
replanting their land after logging until the mid 70s. The oldest reprod
they have are 30 year old trees, when we could have been looking at 50
year old trees. The federal government has never managed their land
better than the average drunken moron. The ceaseless abuse of federal
forests is the single most compelling argument for privatizing federal
timber lands. Now, instead of logging the land and ignoring it, they
have moved on to burning it down and ignoring it.


Interesting = The best forests were on private lands not Federal land
= so that is where the most logging should take place!