In The News – How Sierra Nevada’s newest sawmill advances Tahoe’s forest health
October 30, 2024 | Member Submitted
Originally Published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, 10/25/2024, Katelyn Welsh
CARSON CITY, Nev. – Drivers heading up or down Highway 50 as it opens up into Carson City may have noticed stacks of logs piled to the south. The 40 acres where those logs reside is Washoe Tribe land and now the location of Tahoe Forest Products, the first new industrial-scale sawmill in the Sierra Nevada in several decades.
“The question of why get into the sawmill business,” company chairman Kevin Leary says, “when most of the industry is currently losing money is a very good one.”
The answer highlights a shift forest management and its urgency. Leary explains after fires like Caldor, Tamarack and others that have burned millions of acres in California, it’s ignited a political and public push to get a handle on the unhealthy and overstocked forests that have lead up to this mega-fire crisis.
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