Pat has covered several of the important points about NF’s but some clarification.
- It is not about the Forest SErvice not being allowed to pursue forest certification, even though many of us advocated for that. Rather, we could never reconcile the obligations of Forest Planning and the NEPA process with forest certification. More work could be done around this question.
and 2) many NF’s would like to do more forest management - and i don’t mean timber management - but there would be project cost AND difficulties in getting access to any thinnings. Insufficient budget and insufficient infrastructure. some time ago it was suggested that mobile mills should be developed to get into some of these more remote sites to bring the mill to the forest rather then the wood to the mill.