The alternative is to give control of federal lands to the states, at which point they can be moonscaped and parceled out to sell to developers to put up a bunch of housing developments and bullshit. No thanks. I like my public lands. I like having places to hike and hunt. I like having healthy populations of game animals so i dont have to eat beef and pork.
As if the federal ground isn't being progressively moonscaped by beetle kill and wildfire burning through unnaturally heavy fuels.
States with actual timber resources operate under state-level Forest Protection rules that mirror federal policy in many ways, but they actually harvest, because their agency budgets depends on producing real revenue for their state. Many states that actually allow timber harvesting are being overcut to make up for the lack of sustainable production on federal ground.
Control of land needs to be returned to as local a level as possible. Do you hunt and recreate in your state or do you think another state should manage its resources to suit your needs?
Healthy populations of game? Better get the FWS out of the picture then. They can't even figure out which species of wolf is native to an area.
National forest up here is being aggressively logged to help with wildfire problems, and the feds have turned wolf control over to the states basically everywhere they exist. Its my state preventing wolf control, not the feds. Been that way for 10 years and will never change. National forest here offers the best hunting around.
Ever looked at the scale reports for a federal timber harvest or seen the balance sheet for the $/mbf it costs the taxpayer for that timber to reach the market? The entire federal land management system is a bloated disaster used at the top to create cushy office positions in DC for friends of politicians and at the local level to maintain the insane cycle of insufficient management causing bigger and more severe wildfires leading to land management budgets being drained to fund firefighting which leads to even less land management and the cycle repeats ad nauseum.
Who is laying out and marketing that timber being "aggressively" harvested on federal ground in your area? Are you sure it's not a state agency doing the work under the Good Neighbor Authority in a last-ditch effort to salvage as much of this rotation of federal timber as possible before it all burns?
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