Boris
Son of Kalashnikov
As McConnely pointed out - the timber is being prevented from being cut by the Feds. The Feds are doing this because special interest groups use the Feds as a very large hammer to protect endangered wildlife.
it's something like 70% of the land there is owned by fed .gov which means you got a really finicky land owner. It's no different than your neigboor with lots of land suddenly going moonbat and posting his land no hunting zone. People who depend to feed their family will get an autoshaft.
If we are talking about private land where .gov tells the owner what to do with it (at gun point, of course, as usual) than it's different matter. In US, a much higher percentage of land is owned by .gov Some of it is for "protection/conservation" which means all kinds of things to different people. The bottom line is, dirty hippies who are citizens have as much say in its use as other people. This includes mining too. Widespread private ownership is a double-edged sword. In the former Soviet Union, most of land was public. I won't lie, that part was ****ing great. You can walk around the country, camp and access beaches without tall fences or "private property signs". Most people were responsible to use it like it really belonged to them with the usual small percentage of *******s present in any country. The bottom line is, .gov land is there to limit it's use and to preserve it as is, that was the reason for national parks and why a lot of land was not privatized. (I may be wrong about purpose those, shit I did go to public school afterall)