A series featuring a look at both sides of timber issues. Find out how regulated the wood products business is. This article appeared in the Dominion Post Newspaper on March 18, 1998. Return to the listing of articles of March 18, 1998.
Some people think harvesting trees muddies streams.
They may be wrong. Muddy a stream with your logging operation, and Dick and other state foresters can shut you down. That'll cost you. If you shut a guy down for two or three days before he can get something corrected and opened back up, it's going to cost him a lot of money. Violators are fined only as a last resort.