ppine wrote:
The US Forest Service roads on National Forests are federally owned. They all are numbered in theory, but you can't always find them marked. State owned lands are managed by the WA State Dept of Natural Resources (DNR). Not sure where you are getting this idea about all the state land being leased to tree farms.
Timber sales take place on Nat Forest lands. Private logging companies bid for stumpage (forest trees on the stump). They are responsible for building and improving roads on Nat Forests which get numbers and become part of the USFS road system.
There is rarely logging in parks. This fall I saw the unbelievable loaded log trucks driving across Yosemite NP.
but you can't always find them marked,
that is correct, vandals do their thing.
State owned lands are managed by the WA State Dept of Natural Resources (DNR)
This is also correct, DNR is who we rent the land from.
As far as logging in the parks? go to Google maps and see the Olympic park, enlarge it you will see there is plenty logging going on in the park. not as much as the private and state DNR lands close by but still it is continually happening.
