Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act on National Forests
A review of U.S. Forest Service land management accomplishments, budget and litigation since complying with the National Environmental Policy Act.
Todd A. Morgan is director of the Forest Industry Research Program at the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana.
A review of U.S. Forest Service land management accomplishments, budget and litigation since complying with the National Environmental Policy Act.
A construction and remodeling boom has driven the demand for lumber and far exceeded the supply, causing lumber prices to rise all over the country.
What would the economy of Ravalli County look like today if timber harvests hadn’t declined?
Timber harvests are the major cause of declining employment and labor earnings in Montana’s forest industry.
Depression era bank robber Willie Sutton’s reasoning for why he robbed banks was summed up in a famous quote, “Because that’s where the money…