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That's not the issue. Many sawmills and staff are already fallowed and ready to rape/ clearcut any forest the law will allow.

Nothing says "reviving an industry" quite like destroying the very resource the industry depends on. It’s the economic equivalent of burning your house down to keep the furnace running for an hour.

The lumber industry has been given a budget of available trees, and they should be held to that budget. They're Conservatives, right? They congratulate themselves for replanting, yet they still demand large trees for EXPORT. If given free rein, they'd take every large tree in our nation.

When given the option, loggers will ALWAYS cut the largest, oldest trees and leave saplings, even tho' large trees most likely to survive a wild fire. So, "This is a guy who lives here and is tired of seeing these beautiful places burn up" remember they are not "tired" of clearcutting the forest.

Nice pun. It is the wasted framing of demolishing homes instead of recycling their materials that is in need of change. Not more logging. I lived in a logging region, I know how ugly, crude and wasteful it is just because of the lower profit margin in selective logging instead of clearcutting.

FDT

I agree with Peter.

It’s not about saving an industry or preventing fires. It’s about grift and graft. It’s about Trump believing everything belongs to him and he can sell-off anything he wants. He enriches himself, his family and his donors

No, I don't understand. No ethnic group can claim control over all US land and exert veto power over everyone else's law-abiding activity. Especially in uninhabited areas.

Appreciate your opinion, however, like assholes - Everyone has One!!

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Trump loathes nature and loves destroying it

Maralargo can be destroyed and salvaged to build dozens of single family homes. He won't need it soon.

We do not need to open up our forests. We need to conserve them. We can use different, more sustainable materials. WE MUST CONSERVE what we have and stop business from destroying the planet.

This ignores a major issue of how demolished wood framed structures are just broken up for landfill when in fact they are a very valuable opportunity to recycle lumber and save forests. Very few operations currently do this. Regardless of cost there is more than one kind of cost to wasted resources.

Did a lumber industry rep write or pay for this? This is propaganda for the lumber industry and the Trump regime. No alternative perspectives included! Also wtf is this?