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"no saw mills left in Northern California" - eh? This is just one company's sawmills (they are hiring): https://www.spi-ind.com/Operations/SawmillOperations htt
by mfb 3y ago
"no saw mills left in Northern California" - eh? This is just one company's sawmills (they are hiring): https://www.spi-ind.com/Operations/SawmillOperations https://www.spi-ind.com/Operations/SawmillOperations
- ajross 3y agoI don't know what that poster was talking about either. Even if CA were to outlaw lumber milling in the north of the state, the rest of the PNW produces enough for the continent already. There's plenty of wood in the deep blue queer tree-hugging west coast. The USA is a huge exporter of the crop, actually.
- olivermarks 3y agoTHE IMPACT OF CALIFORNIA’S CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS ON TIMBER HARVEST PLANNING COSTS (2005) https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/19139176.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiQnMH_oLL_AhXeJkQIHbjKCi0QFnoECDEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3aZ0mLx-mno8vX6sc8DaCb https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/... Sierra is processing imported lumber mostly https://www.spi-ind.com/OurForests/ForestManagement#:~:text=Harvest%20cycles%20are%20separated%20by,approval%20by%20state%20regulatory%20agencies https://www.spi-ind.com/OurForests/ForestManagement#:~:text=....
- mfb 3y agoI'd be interested to see the data re: "processing imported lumber mostly". Statewide back in 2016, California timber harvest was 1,572 MMBF; wood processing facilities received 1,483 MMBF; 11.5 MMBF flowed into California from other states; 99.7 MMBF flowed out of California for processing out of state or export according to https://www.bber.umt.edu/pubs/forest/fidacs/CA2016%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf https://www.bber.umt.edu/pubs/forest/fidacs/CA2016%20Fact%20...
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoThat's true about Oregon and Washington but NOT California. It's also why you don't see wildfires to nearly the same extent in the Northeast or South - we cut our trees.
- dendrite9 3y agoAll three have different topography and climates from the NE or the South. I don't understand why people think what works in one type of forest will just work in another. The trees are different, the climate is different, the weather is different. There have been big fires in Oregon and Washington in recent years as well, not just in California. And the Tillamook Burn was big, but that was a long time ago.
- tracerbulletx 3y agoThe reason you don't see wildfires is because its like 1000% times wetter east of the Mississippi.
- George83728 3y ago> the deep blue queer tree-hugging west coast. I take it you haven't spent much time out in the sticks of Oregon or Washington.
- kurthr 3y agoYeah, and there are lots of smaller ones. Some in Santa Cruz (Big Creek) and Sonoma (Cazadero). It's nice be able to get local lumber and the pricing is often better. Part of the problem is that people built next to the logging areas since they're so quiet and pretty with relatively good roads. That really makes it hard to do controlled burns. And people moved there for the trees so they don't want you to cut them down.
- RC_ITR 3y agoIt's amazing the things people believe with no evidence (and then get massive amounts of upvotes for!). Look at a map of northern California and you see that the landscape is dominated by a checkerboard pattern of logging/no-logging (the most efficient way to maintain a forest and create firebreaks, even if that wasn't the original intent and people are trying their damndest to break the system). https://eros.usgs.gov/media-gallery/earthshot/checkerboard-pattern https://eros.usgs.gov/media-gallery/earthshot/checkerboard-p... https://www.truckeedonnerlandtrust.org/sierra-nevada-checkerboard https://www.truckeedonnerlandtrust.org/sierra-nevada-checker...