Why don't they simply bring in the wood chippers and clean up the slash? Sell the chips to make OSB and wood pellets for pellet stoves, charcoal and other products?
It is not logistically or financially feasible to bring that kind of equipment into the woods on to transport the chips out of the woods. Not to mention there aren't enough log truck drivers in the first place.
That's what we do in the northeast, and it is profitable.
What's the seasonality of your road systems, average slope of a harvest unit, and typical distance from a log landing to a mill or other endpoint for those residual chip products? It's been studied and piloted extensively in the PNW and does not work here unless heavily subsidized.
Different species mix as well. Less value per stem here as opposed to the eastern forests.
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