>>606259Yes, but it depends what you mean by forest. What sort of forestry field are we talking here?
There are lodgepole pines in the high mountains (definitely the Uintahs, probably others too), and I think they're the only trees in the state that are logged to any meaningful extent. The Wasatch and similar ranges have Douglas Firs, but the forest still hasn't really recovered from heavy logging in the early years of settlement. Clearing them for ski runs also hasn't helped anything either. The point is, it's too sparse a forest to support significant logging, although it definitely exists. Pic related, the Wasatch east of Salt Lake. The LaSals probably have something similar, but i wasn't really paying attention to the types of trees when I was last there.
There is a ton of juniper in the lower mountain ranges in the deserty western part of the state, and the lower slopes of the taller mountains support scrub oak / bigtooth maple (trees that are too small for logging, but which look gorgeous in the fall) and quaking aspen.
A lot of people who move to Utah do so because they love the outdoors, though. I'm not sure how many jobs would be available in forestry because of the competition this would create, combined with the limited forest cover to begin with.
