Reuters: “Trump Logging Order Sparks Fears for US Southeast Forests”
RFF Senior Fellow Dave Wear comments on trends in regional logging levels.
Much of the federally owned land in the United States is in the West, where two-thirds of forest lands in some states are government controlled, said David Wear, a senior fellow at Resources for the Future, a think tank...
While logging levels dropped, the US remains among the world’s largest producers and consumers of timber, Wear said.
Yet many of the sawmills and other infrastructure required to handle increased production have closed, and rebuilding would take years, he added.
