[Kozak]

while China consumes much of our lumber, China is conserving its own huge forest preverses in Communist (or more recently, fascist) fashion.

Brilliantly stupid communist fashion. In case you haven't heard lumber is a renewable resource. If we weren't cutting them down for lumbar, we wouldn't be growing them. we havemore trees now then we did at the turn of the last century. We are not running out of trees.

[familyop]

Did you misunderstand what I wrote? China is keeping large tracts of forest in reserve and not cutting while we feed lumber to that country. I already know that we (USA) are not running out of trees except for the overly large forest fires caused by greenie policy. I also know that certain US lumber companies teamed up with environmentatists against their competition to shut them down a long time ago. Other businesses (including large developers) have been doing the same.