Slugbait - 6/9/2018 06:24 There isn't much choking the timber industry here, other than a near total lack of harvest on public land. Private timberland management has been able to push tree growth and harvest cycles to meet demand, mostly. Other than salvage logging after forest fires, which really doesn't affect supply and price, the "fruits and nuts" don't do much here. Much of the Coast Range in Oregon is HEL land, and some oversight is needed. I remember Crown Zellerbach logging in the 80's, cut everything, leave high line roads right to the creeks, never replant. That was pretty much the end of the salmon run where I grew up. Some things have swung to far, for timber tax (timber deferral property tax), landowners have to plant solid stands of trees, leaving little to no feed for deer and elk. They move out to ag land in search of feed, and don't leave when they find it. You would have to come here and see the timber industry to understand the dynamics that affect supply and price. Nearly every place you can develop (a tightly controlled thing here) is getting new homes built on it. Massive train loads of raw logs go the Columbia every day and take a boat ride to China. Most paper mills have disappeared, and lumber mills are following. A few giant vertically integrated companies control the market and set prices (Weyerhaeuser, Georgia Pacific).