ORIGINAL: livbucks
I have news...all timber is marketable. Some is for lumber, the rest is for pulp. Pulp big commodity. Pulp make paper, pulp make alcohol. Pulp make OSB. Pulp make lots.
Which subject do you know less of again?
Once gain you demonstrate your ignorance of the timber industry. When the cost of harvesting a tree and converting it to a useable product ,exceeds its market value , that tree will not be harvested. Proctor & Gamble is importing pulp from south America because it is cheaper that the pulpwood harvested in NE PA. The market price for hemlock is currently so low that it doesn't pay for the cost of harvesting it.