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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
Like I said, the entire state is dead. If you want to chop down all the dead trees you'd need to clear cut the whole state, right now.
About the only thing that would fix it is just evacuate the whole state and throw a match and let it do its thing. Then come back and start from scratch.
The wood isn't allowed to be used for export because it's diseased, mostly pine beetles, and could cause the same condition elsewhere. If you go sit in the forest you can hear all the pine beetles chewing on the wood inside the trees. And although there's a big need for building in Colorado, you wouldn't be able to use all that wood due to the low population.
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Uh, not even hardly. The forests have some beetle damage and those trees could certainly be made into lumber to be used domestically instead of all the imported wood we get from Canada. We can't cut it down becuase very permit is challenged and blocked. Then as they could never cut anything down the mills had nothing to mill so they all closed. Now they have been closed so light they have been dismantled. So it would take a decade or more to bring it all back online. Sadly we will be back to the true record fire seasons of before 1920 and modern management by then.