“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.” LoggingForest ServiceTimber Sales Book:This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
“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.” LoggingForest Service Book:This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West