They would be hauled by truck or helicopter into the forest. They would have satellite internet hookups to receive timber orders and confirm deliveries. Trees could be cut and milled to order, and delivered in the same amount of time it takes to get lumber to market today. The loggers working around them will be forest experts, who know which trees to cut to promote maximum growth of the surrounding trees. Mobile logging camps, perhaps featuring welfare families or civilian peace corps, will support the mini mills and their operators, while treading gently on the land and eliminating the need to build roads.
Reforestation can create as many jobs as deforestation did in decades past.
Millions of acres of land across the U.S. have been completely denuded of trees, allowing soil to run into streams and hillsides to slide into towns. Instead of subsidizing this destruction for the benefit of a few wealthy timber barons, federal dollars could create thousands of modest-income jobs growing, planting and nurturing millions of trees over the next 20 years. Increased demand for professional foresters. Apprenticeship opportunities for at-risk children, homeless or welfare dependent who want to get out of destructive city environs Possible good use of prison labor to plant trees at the direction of a forester. Increased production of oxygen and absorption of global-warming carbon dioxide.