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This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West

Book by Christopher Ketcham · 3 quotes · Cattle, Grazing, Logging

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“Overall, the cost to the Forest Service to prepare and administer the timer sales, to oversee the construction of the roads, to mitigate (in usually small ineffective ways) the damage to the landscape far outweighs any fiscal return.”

Logging Forest Service Timber Sales

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“As with grazing on the BLM rangelands, the destruction of our forests is heavily subsidized. The most common estimate is the Forest Service loses between $1,400 and $1,900 per acre logged.”

Logging Forest Service

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“The annual volume of forest felled during the Obama administration was higher than all the years during the George W. Bush administration but one. In the year Obama took office, 2009, the cut was 1,954,092,000 board feet; at the end of the Obama administration in 2016 it was up to 2,536,601,000 board feet, an increase of almost 30 percent. Much of this was done under the pretext of preventing wildfire.”

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