Comments on: The trees are ready to cut https://www.isegoria.net/2019/07/the-trees-are-ready-to-cut/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: TRX https://www.isegoria.net/2019/07/the-trees-are-ready-to-cut/comment-page-1/#comment-2914974 TRX Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:13:49 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45384#comment-2914974 I live in Arkansas. Forestry is big here. We send timber and plywood all over the country, and even foreign countries.

…yet if I go to a lumberyard or big box store, about half the wood for sale is marked “Produit du Canada” and the other half says “made in Ukraine.”

We make good plywood and 2x4s fifty miles away, but all I can buy is potato-chip plywood and curly-fry 2x4s from thousands of miles away? And even at that, Canada *used to be* a source of decent wood; the stuff on the racks here, we would have put in the “culls and firewood” pile even 20 years ago.

]]> By: Ezra https://www.isegoria.net/2019/07/the-trees-are-ready-to-cut/comment-page-1/#comment-2914881 Ezra Wed, 10 Jul 2019 02:26:58 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45384#comment-2914881 Planting of trees on a massive scale just a few days ago suggested as a means of combating “global warming”. A carbon sink of which the United States will play a major role. More trees in the USA now than before the settlers arrived? Could be so.

]]> By: Kirk https://www.isegoria.net/2019/07/the-trees-are-ready-to-cut/comment-page-1/#comment-2914877 Kirk Wed, 10 Jul 2019 01:59:12 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45384#comment-2914877 This problem stems from the same things that create the effect where if you put the government in charge of the Sahara desert, we’d be suffering a shortage of sand within about a decade…

Government intervention is something that should only be used sparingly, as a last resort, and with full attention paid throughout in order to prevent these little “unforeseen” issues.

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