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I remember where I was when I learned about "Fortress Conservation" as a phenomenon of political economy (political ecology). as a formal ecologist, the histories (some quite recent/current) were eye opening. i have tried to bring my colleagues attention to it, but aside from younger scientists and conservation workers, older faculty and non profit leaders (with limited exception) were extremely recalcitrant about learning from its lessons, generally.

these people really don't want to acknowledge that many of their exalted heroes fucking hated indigenous people and held extremely racist opinions about traditional ecological knowledge and land management. or just how fascist it is to insist that only a certain socioeconomic cohort of generally urban elites with political power can understand natural resources and they should make decisions unanswerable to the people who live and build their lives in these places.

like no actually, he was one link in the chain that led to where we are now.

Where your heart fails to hold all the hatred they deserve, mine picks up where yours left off. Our combined communist human waves of hatred will liberate Stalingrad.

Definitely do not look up Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching

Edward Abbey was definitely not a real person, his FICTIONAL ideas are purely for entertainment

sorry sweaty this is democracy

You can say 20 percent but lets be honest, at least 40 percent of Americans are hogs, another 20 percent dgaf either ways

So I'm guessing you are either in the north east or parts of the Midwest based on what you wrote. There are three things I'd point out with that being said. Firstly, there are some areas where there are genuinely valuable trees on forest service land, as they allow logging at a minorly limited rate. This is especially true out west. Secondly, evonomies of scale. Much of the lumber industry is set up to clearcut even aged plantations at scale, and as a result it can be hard to find sawmills to buy small and diverse loads of logs from clearing smaller private parcels. Thirdly, there is an increasing demand for wood based biofuel, mainly for export to Europe or japan. This industry is only established in the southeast and Pacific Northwest thus far, but the companies involved in that do seem to be attempting to expand (drax, a British company was denied permits to build two large biofuel pellet plants in California).

Tldr, your observations of the timber industry are accurate but I think there are specific intelligent profiteers behind this type of move