When are you planning to move to be with your "kind"?

Lug, this is false. The government owns the forest, private companies are given allocations, not paid to harvest it. That’s not the same as what you are stating. Is it advantageous that they are able to acquire wood cheaper than in the us market? Yes, it is, but that’s a benefit of not privatizing everything. It is also done to spur economic activity in remote regions. Not trying to be antagonistic but being from PA you likely cannot picture what many people in the northern regions would do if not for the government spurring economic activity. There’s not much else in many of these places to create employment. In the area I live I wouldn’t even want guess how many people work in forestry but what I do know is that there would be much less good employment if not for forestry. It’s okay to hate it, I don’t take that personally. I just think the at the end of the day some of our timber is actually required, much like we require your vegetables from California in the winter.

Savell, I laughed out loud, good sense of humour.

"I just learned that Canada has soft wood and USA has hard wood so this is very edjumucational! grin"

Best line of the day....

If 4% of your population is gay and you increase it 8 fold you have a 32% gay population
See how that works

Ok, one last time. This should make it easy. If you take 100 Americans, about 8 will be gay. If you take 100 Canadians, about 4 will be gay. What you do to one side you have to do to the other. So, let’s say we take 1 billion Canadians, only 4% will be gay. It doesn’t matter how big the numbers are
I friggin hate math and think fractions are gay………not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Here in PA, especially north central PA, timber companies own large tracts of forests. They usually put the harvesting of that timber up for bids. Smaller landowners do the same thing.

Same here in the southeastern US.

What would be wrong with fractions?

That’s why I had to add that there’s nothing wrong with fractions and gayness, to appease the 7.6% of the members…..or 7.6/100…lol. I put a decimal in a fraction which isn’t cool either!

I dont care where its being sourced from. Quality framing lumber is non existent here. Price goes up and quality goes down. Knots, grain widely spaced, warped, half green, lots of bark are all you see now. I would be scared to build a new house with the stuff lumberyards around here are selling. to top it off drive by any new housing project. the waste is nothing short of amazing. Probably cut the cost of new home construction several percentage points if care was taken to manage the amount of waste.

Ok, one last time. This should make it easy. If you take 100 Americans, about 8 will be gay. If you take 100 Canadians, about 4 will be gay. What you do to one side you have to do to the other. So, let’s say we take 1 billion Canadians, only 4% will be gay. It doesn’t matter how big the numbers are
I friggin hate math and think fractions are gay………not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Living a gay lifestyle is another story......I would rather be good with God then the 7.6% of the members.

I dont care where its being sourced from. Quality framing lumber is non existent here. Price goes up and quality goes down. Knots, grain widely spaced, warped, half green, lots of bark are all you see now. I would be scared to build a new house with the stuff lumberyards around here are selling. to top it off drive by any new housing project. the waste is nothing short of amazing. Probably cut the cost of new home construction several percentage points if care was taken to manage the amount of waste.

Percentages are growing . . .

Who’s the guy in the silent generation that opened his big dang mouth?!? Guess he came out of the closet….lol

Ok, one last time. This should make it easy. If you take 100 Americans, about 8 will be gay. If you take 100 Canadians, about 4 will be gay. What you do to one side you have to do to the other. So, let’s say we take 1 billion Canadians, only 4% will be gay. It doesn’t matter how big the numbers are
I friggin hate math and think fractions are gay………not that there’s anything wrong with that.