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Tariff wars, they have began


Wally Fairway

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1 hour ago, flatdawgs said:

Clearcutting still exists here (although regulated to some extent by using buffer zones, variable-density harvesting, etc. and mandatory replanting) and although it has been severely limited (on federal lands) since the NW Forest Plan 25 years ago, it still occurs there under the guise of other NFS projects, most recently in the Colville NF. On private lands, which are extensive due to the checkerboarding of federal land grants to the railroads, it's more extensive and subject only to state regs. In WA these are relatively weak due to, among other things, the fact that the state constitution to this day allocates school construction funds from timber sales revenues. 

You're quite correct (as I'd expect with your background and experience) that more of this occurs outside the NF boundaries than inside, which can be pretty clearly seen in the checkerboard patterns on satellite images.

Yeah, and I guess clearcutting has its place in forest management as well.

But I would expect the Trump administration to do it for profit and without regard to good forestry practices.

Sadly, part of the South's ascendance in timber production is abuse of rural and rural minority families to take their timberland and put it in production when they hadn't properly descended their lands.  

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