Restoring California’s logging industry is seen as a tool to better forest management.

It’s being spearheaded by Golden Together, a movement to restore the California dream. It proposes replacing concrete as a prime construction material with wood.

A policy paper just issued points out:
-California’s 30,000 square miles of forest and chaparral are overgrown tinderboxes primed for wildfires and the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change

- A revived timber industry could put California at the forefront of a revolution in sustainable construction materials and lower-cost homebuilding.

- Most of the proposed reforms are cost-neutral to taxpayers.

Golden Together led by author and government policy advisor Steve Hilton.

Story Date: March 17, 2024