Well, you could if you weren’t the US Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management. [note: please dock 2 points for snark]. I’ve spent maybe 10 min on this topic over the last year, but I do have property next to federally owned land in the CA Sierras. My understanding is that getting Forest Service to allow more logging is really hard, and that letting more logging in CA get through legal challenges and local rules is even harder. And selling some of the random patches of BLM land off never happens. This source is visibly and emotionally biased, but in an article about a new bill it has some info about past failed attempts to increase logging for bark beetle infested areas. FYI, beetle kill wood is still usable for lumber within 5 years, but not afterwards.
Well, you could if you weren’t the US Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management. [note: please dock 2 points for snark]. I’ve spent maybe 10 min on this topic over the last year, but I do have property next to federally owned land in the CA Sierras. My understanding is that getting Forest Service to allow more logging is really hard, and that letting more logging in CA get through legal challenges and local rules is even harder. And selling some of the random patches of BLM land off never happens. This source is visibly and emotionally biased, but in an article about a new bill it has some info about past failed attempts to increase logging for bark beetle infested areas. FYI, beetle kill wood is still usable for lumber within 5 years, but not afterwards.