06/05/2017
https://www.congress.gov...
"91 percent of our harvest comes from private land, just 6 percent from State and tribal lands, 2 percent from Federal lands."
"Litigation. The Forest Service is afraid to make a move to do anything for fear of litigation."
"Would a short-term moratorium on lawsuits for high-risk timber or insect-infested timber--and, by the way, 'insect-infested timber' is D.C.-speak for dead trees."
"Yet loggers are struggling to find work."