There's no good reason to log America's national forests. Private timberland already supplies more than 90% of the country's wood. The federal program cutting the rest loses money on every sale, on land where Americans camp, hike, ski, and fish.

The Forest Service maintains 370,000 miles of logging roads, more than the entire Interstate Highway System, built so private companies can reach trees taxpayers paid to identify and sell at a loss.

The recreation economy on those same lands generates $1.3 trillion, supports 5.2 million American jobs, and contributes more to the US economy than farming, oil and gas, mining, or utilities.

The Trump administration's response has been to declare a "timber emergency" on 112 million acres, including 11 million acres of designated Wilderness, one third of all Wilderness in the National Forest System. The high-fire-risk lands that supposedly justify the declaration account for only 12% of the emergency zone itself.

Tom "Chainsaw" Schultz, a former timber executive, now runs the agency deciding where the chainsaws go.

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