This Small Lumber Company Beat Back a Blaze. Rebuilding Is a Bigger Battle.

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With wildfires in California posing the greatest threat to the timber industry since the Great Recession, lumber companies are struggling to navigate the enormous financial burden of repairing the fire-charred forests they rely on for logging

SWANTON, Calif.—As fire roared down a hillside of redwood and Douglas-fir trees here in August, the McCrary family readied itself once again to be a last line of defense.

The family, whose logging operation, Big Creek Lumber, stretches across roughly 8,000 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains, positioned its water trucks and hoses, doused piles of redwood logs, dug fire breaks and drove bulldozers toward the flames. The McCrarys spent a sleepless night as the lightning-sparked inferno threatened to engulf the land, and with it...

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Such a shame. How an industry can change viability overnight.

Is California experiencing Hell's fury?

Too bad they couldn’t have logged more. Might not have burned if so.

Canada is always open for business.

Liberal litigation is the greatest threat to the timber industry by far.

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stop funding arsonists

Thanks god climate change is a hoax, right boys

we need a serious plant a tree initiative

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