Opening 1.5 million acres of public land to industrial logging protected only by a narrow economic interpretation of the O&C law, as U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio proposes in his trust plan for O&C lands, is unthinkable. While the giveaway works well for the timber barons, continuing to waste our public lands at a loss is ridiculous.
Read MoreIn the case of ships transporting whole logs there may be a significant cost to the economy in the form of lost mill worker jobs and lost tax revenue.
Read MoreThe industry is speculating on your forest the way Wall Street speculated on housing derivatives. Why should we increase logging in the public forests at a loss? Selling more public assets into a radically depressed domestic market is throwing good money after bad. It makes no sense.
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