In his recent Soapbox opinion, John Talberth calls for ending all timber harvests on Washington’s state trust lands and proposes replacing this revenue with a new tax on forest landowners, new fees on recreation, and selling speculative carbon offsets to investors and multinational corporations.
This argument fundamentally misunderstands how Washington’s forest sector works and what’s at stake if we abandon sustainable forest management in the Evergreen State.
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