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?
Well as i said, lotta logging going on here on fed land specifically to address fires. And the logging is contracted out to the highest bidding private business, youre trying to make it sound like its the usfs itself doing the logging and were paying wages for the loggers. Thats not the case. Feds cant sell off land to developers. States can. Ill keep my federal land. You can enjoy suburban sprawl elsewhere. Wilderness areas are nigger free. Housing developments are not. I spend a lot of my life on national forest land hunting deer, bear, lion etc. Picking berries and mushrooms, shed hunting, being in the mountains alone. That couldnt happen if that land was being sold to developers which it eventually would be if it wasnt fed land.
Federal land is OUR land. We own it. State land not so much. I have to buy a pass to park on state owned land. Federal land no pass required because it belongs to me.
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