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All National Forests have a forestry plan that involves selling a certain amount of timber cut from the forest every year. However, forest recreation (which ob
by mikeocool 2y ago
All National Forests have a forestry plan that involves selling a certain amount of timber cut from the forest every year.
However, forest recreation (which obviously requires the forests to still have trees) also generates a lot of money — both for the local economy around the forest and via things like permits for the government itself.
Basically the goal is to maintain the forests as long term assets, not sell them off in one go.
- tonymet 2y agoAll good. obviously they aren't productive enough. It's about 70% of the western usa. surely they could be more productive.
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- amanaplanacanal 2y agoWhat do you recommend?
- tonymet 2y agoFirst and foremost, reduce the scope and spending of the federal government by 90% . Assuming that is healthy, activate leasing on federal land (USFS & BLM) to generate income. e.g. logging, petroleum, recreational leases, mining , etc.