When I read all the comments on both sides of this issue it seems as though people are polarized. Let's face it most of use live in wood framed houses and use wood products every day. So can we all at least agree there is a need to utilize the resource? CA consumes billions of board feet of lumber products a year. Most of it is imported from other states and Canada. We do this because we do not have the ability to produce enough to fill our needs. It's not wise to import so much of this wood, and export all the jobs out of state. Not to mention the extra miles the thousands of trucks and railcars have to travel to bring the lumber to CA. This in turn creates more pollution and congests our roads. We use and need the products, that's a given. The question is how are we going to get it? CA has the most complex forestry rules in the world and we do have the capacity to produce more of our own lumber products. We also have the best foresters in the world. I think it would be a more worthwhile to discuss how we can sustainably harvest more trees in order to meet the demands for wood products in CA.