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I think that you are fundamentally unable to conceptualize how large our forested areas are. As another poster noted, there are 360 million acres of forest in
by buildsjets 4y ago
I think that you are fundamentally unable to conceptualize how large our forested areas are. As another poster noted, there are 360 million acres of forest in the western United States, and a lot of it is in extraordinarily remote areas. The population of the United States is ~330M, so over one acre for each individual in the country. It takes me a full weekend every year just doing a light spring cleanup in my 1/4 acre yard. How many acres of forest can you personally rake in a day? How much in taxes are you willing to pay to hire other people or machines to do it?
- godshatter 4y agoI live in the mountains of Idaho, so, yeah, I'm aware. I had friends in high school and in college in the 80s that did precisely this. As for taxes, we can either pay them on the front end by doing more preventative maintenance or we can pay them on the back end handling damages and knock on costs. In reality it will be a mixture of both, but the more we put up front the less we would (should) have to pay later. Of course, one stroke of bad luck can throw all our best laid plans to the winds.