Outsourcing timber costs thousands of jobs
A country that once exported mature timber from Oregon now wants chips from teenage trees
Read MoreA country that once exported mature timber from Oregon now wants chips from teenage trees
Read MoreTo bolster local timber supplies and jobs, commissioners should be working to reduce rampant log exports. They should also be working to reduce unearned tax exemptions on corporate forest lands and timber harvesting in order to increase revenues to counties.
Read MoreIn spite of this enormous volume of potentially available timber and soft domestic lumber market, industry is collaborating with well-paid scientists and token environmental groups to lobby for increased federal logging under the guise of “restoring forests and jobs.” The reality is that global timber corporations are exploiting the forest and people of the Northwest like a Third World resource center.
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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