Not that I think that the US should price trees so high that the Amazon needs to be logged but the US government should stop subsidizing all of our natural resources so that more are used (trees, water, land, agriculture, etc, etc) Keith wrote: The Forest Service gets at most a few million dollars a year from timber sales, but spends multiples of that to support logging. In 2013, the National Audubon Society pegged the federal subsidy at $130,000 per worker. Seems to me the Federal Government could double the number of forest-related jobs by paying $65,000 per worker to NOT log any timber. Instead, they could be put to work repairing damaged streams, trails, and blocked culverts. Either way the Feds would lose the same amount of money but twice as many people could be hired. Isnt that what everyone wants? Besides, when the 2nd growth timber does come on-line shouldnt timber companies be eager to move back in? Isnt that what people who believe in free-market economics always promote? The bottom line: Southeast Alaska’s future lies in its thriving fisheries and tourism industry; tourism alone employed 10,900 workers last year, up 700 jobs just from 2012, and its payroll is 33 times that of the timber business.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 06:17:21 +0000
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