On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:24:03 -0400, gfretwell wrote:


http://gfretwell.com/ftp/slash%20pile.jpg

The best explanation I could get was they were banned from "logging"
there so they had to burn them instead of giving/selling to a saw mill.
Environmentalists and inintended consequences or just protecting tree
farmers and propping up the price of wood? Anyone's guess.
It is some nice looking "lumber" to be burning.

I hate to say it, but the Interior Department has become the enemy. I
know an "inholder" (his land is almost surrounded by a National Forest).
There's not a year goes by that the Forest Service doesn't find a new way
to hassle him. I've tried to make sense of their BS, but I've come to
the conclusion they want his land, and figure if they make his life
miserable enough, he'll sell it. Unfortunately, from my readings, he is
not alone in his dilemma.