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windthrown · 8th February 2008, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by newguy18

thank the useless enviromentalists for that.

Actually they have had zero effect on the current situation. This one is the end of the housing boom gone bust, and a downturn in the economy. This state actually just put forward a logging plan to harvest far more timber than they have in the past 20 or so years. Like 300% more. But at a time when Canadian timber is being imported for cheaper (a lot of the huge commercial mills here get timber on rail cars from Canada now and precess it), and housing is in the tank, they want to log more in the state and depress the value even further???

No env goons this time I am afraid. They have stopped a lot of old growth logging and prevented some areas from being cut near here. But they are few and far between. The barred owl is displacing the spotted owl around here now. Nature is taking care of that problem for us. 2 summers ago trucks were rolling out of here one every 20 minutes. Now? I cannot remember the last log truck on this route. 3 months ago? Maybe longer than that. There as a small cut back in September. I heard a cable yarding operation going a week ago, first one since September. Also saw a skid loader being hauled up into te mountains so there may be some cuts going here in the next few weeks. But it is small stuff. Mills are not taking many logs now. Most are deciding on closing or staying open on skelleton crews. Either way they lose money.