Its time for us all to get busy if we care at all about this business. The Facts, Just The facts. Silviculture workers do find some local work. Approaching our mid-thirties, after ten years devoted to our trades, two thirds of us are without homes or families. Ten years in and, by these standard measures, most of us have little to show for it.
Silviculture workers have no reason to be afraid of change.
A special thanks first to those of you who commented above and beyond the call of duty. It all made for helpful, humorous and interesting reading. Despite the diversity of respondents, there are consistent ideas that run throughout. Ideas that deserve to be heard, and which are well worth collective support. Local work was defined, generally, as being able to get home within a couple of hours at the end of the working day.