>>1138215Are your legs tired after jumping to so many conclusions?
Here in the southeast, while there ARE a lot of landowners who don't really care about their land management beyond a profit and while there ARE a lot of lazy foresters who just do the same ol same ol because it requires less work, there are a lot of landowners who have n interest in conservation and returning their timber to its historical species composition.
Hell, there is more private timberland between AL and GA that has been restored to historic longleaf pine savannah and is now providing habitat for threatened species than all government land in both states combined.
It's the fact that some rich landowners have the money to convert some of their land to these pet projects and the government just doesn't have enough land or money to go around. Shit, the quail plantations in southwest GA have kept the wild quail population alive for that entire region AND is one of the few places in the state where longleaf pine was managed properly, thus you have one of the rare places to study historic old growth longleaf pine.
And lets not forget that the entire western united states is burning down every season thanks to the federal government's mismanagement of our public lands for decades.
