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And what kind of weird red herring is this? Are you seriously worried that if the government auctioned of the first National Park that a logging company would shell out the ridiculous amount of money it would costs just to log it? Seriously?

And you are allowed on most all of the logging property up there as well.

Logging companies purchasing permits to selectively harvest lumber on multi use government land is VERY VERY different than the government selling away prized federal parks.

But I hope you heard that the government is closing 60% of the parks. As of this year. Closing them as in you are no longer allowed to visit them.

Are you seriously suggesting a business that bought said park wouldnt want to profit from buying it?

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Are you seriously suggesting a business that bought said park wouldnt want to profit from buying it?

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I'm saying that the Government would never sell Yosemite. I don't know where you came up with that tangent of an argument. But aside from your weird tangent - a logging company could never make a profit by purchasing that land and logging it. If someone were to buy it they would likely want to preserve it, but if not then they would want to profit from it, which means it would not be a logging company as they could never profit from it.

If someone really wanted to make money from it they would preserve it and charge a gate fee/fee for camping... kind of like what is happening now.

Wrong a company that bought it could do anything thing they legally wanted to do with it. Including clear cutting it and making a giant parking lot.

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Wrong a company that bought it could do anything thing they legally wanted to do with it. Including clear cutting it and making a giant parking lot.

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No, they couldn't.

"The California Forest Practice Rules (CFPR) require the Registered Professional Forester (RPF) preparing the plans to designate and describe what cutting prescriptions are to be used in areas proposed for harvest."

Clear cutting isn't legal in California. Do you know how much that park would cost? Do you think you could make money paving the entire 760k acres over? Have you ever been there? There are parking lots... And hotels and restaurants...

What would be the incentive of clear cutting it? Say you buy it super super cheap at 1.5 billion. Clear cut the entire thing to produce 10million in lumber. Ouch...I just lost a billion dollars. Ooops

Wait, it gets 3.7 million visitors a year... charge for access over and over and over again or clear cut unfriendly logging terrain once. hmmm...

What is your obsession with Yosemite btw? It really sounds like you've never been.

Private property. They could do whatever they legally wanted.
Thats capitalism

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Private property. They could do whatever they legally wanted.
Thats capitalism

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Whatever they legally wanted. And that would be illegal - even on private property. That's capitalism...

I feel you are confusing capitalism and anarchy...

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Wrong a company that bought it could do anything thing they legally wanted to do with it. Including clear cutting it and making a giant parking lot.

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Either you have no fathom of economics, capitalism or the rule of law. In reading many of your posts over the past few days it is apparent that you have either drank the cool-aid offered up by the socialists in the USA, product of government education or just like to read what you write.
If you are or ever have been a property owner then you would know you cannot ramdomly do whatever the hell you want to that property. This is a right which has been taken or given away by the people of the US over the course of several generations. You have an EPA which regulates many facets of property ownership and the land useage, not even to mention the layers upon layers of local, county, state and other federal agencies which also regulate land useage.
So you can yell and scream with all your might but land useage and business regulations by government for better or worse, depending on your policital views protect against your vision of anarchy by the people.

Not at all. What if the winning bidder is China and they wanted to jist shit it down?

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Not at all. What if the winning bidder is China and they wanted to jist shit it down?

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China has to obey by all the same laws when dealing with US land. lol. So if China made it legal in China to dump nuclear waste could they just start dumping it on all the land they own here? Do you think Chinese owned factories in the US don't follow EPA guidelines like the US companies do?

Are you kidding around with us? Is this a big just kidding thread? I should move to a non legal state and start growing pot. If they bust me I'll just tell them I'm still a citizen of California where I'm a patient. Private property bitches!

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so if the land was sold to a private company with a stipulation they couldn't cut the trees down, the government would then fine the company if they cut down the trees. when the price of lumber goes sky high the company cuts down the trees anyway, because even after paying the fines they still made a billion $$$.

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The government lets the company cut down the trees as long as they replace them. This isnt rocket science.

I own land. I can cut down every tree on it and replace the lawn with a uniform layer of either shredded tirez or broken glass

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Private property. They could do whatever they legally wanted.
Thats capitalism

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This is completely and totally untrue. I guess you have no concept of zoning laws.

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Well the corporations are already in power. The government enables the private sector to be stronger and create these super corporations with its regulations and eliminating the free market.

most powerful.

Shrinking government will not create some sort of doomsday scenario where the corporate reins supreme, hell, we are living in that scenario now..but it would free up the markets...We do have anti-trust, fraud, and other laws that keep corporations from doing too much harm.

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The last time the Sherman Anti trust act was used was the break up of ATT - a loooong time ago. Now you can't tell me that there are no effective monopolies currently. You cannot oversee big business with small government.

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The government lets the company cut down the trees as long as they replace them. This isnt rocket science.

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Thats on federal land they lease. They are not legally compelled to replace anything on land they own

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I own land. I can cut down every tree on it and replace the lawn with a uniform layer of either shredded tirez or broken glass

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How much money would that make you?

Seriously, lets come back to reality...

This practice is done in many places. The government sells and/or leases property to a private company for logging. As part of the contract there are terms that ensure the company does not clear cut the land, a practice that hasnt been done since I have been alive in America because it just isnt as profitable as doing a renewable forest.

The government makes money from property taxes and/or lease income. The company makes a perpetual profit by logging and reforesting the land.

Why can you not believe that anything a private company could do could be good for the environment and/or the taxpayers?

I bought a corn farm that had a crop of corn ready for harvest. The farm was $500,000 and I only made $50,000 from my harvest. I guess I'll salt my fields and buy another farm.

Is this what people thing forestry is?

Trees are highly regulated organically grown crops - there is a lot of science that goes into it to make sure the forest remains healthy. It's just like organic farming, they aim for high, fast, sustainable yields. Sustainable means they take care of the forest.

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I own land. I can cut down every tree on it and replace the lawn with a uniform layer of either shredded tirez or broken glass

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Where do you live? Pakistan?

I can't cut down any of my trees without a permit. If I put shredded glass on my front lawn that would be an immediate lawsuit.

Can you dump hazardous materials? Do you toss your old oil in your backyard?

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Thats on federal land they lease. They are not legally compelled to replace anything on land they own

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Yes they are. There are particular forestry laws. Don't be ignorant and look some of this up before you reply.

Look the laws ip for me. Post them here. And remember a couple of political candidates dont like regulations. So maybe you shouldnt vote for them