Re: "Housing" ( a.k.a. "indoor plumbing" ).

On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:10:38 -0700 (Seattle), Relf wrote:

Missoula is East Seattle, i90.

The shit stops at Spokane. Lookout Pass makes a great choke point.
 

All 9 of its sawmills were shut down, one this year,
because "housing" ( a.k.a. "indoor plumbing" ) is unaffordable.

Housing is ridiculous but the mills shut down long before the current
inflation. Some of it was Canadian imports, some was running out of
accessible timber. The low hanging fruit was cut 50 years ago and it takes
about 100 years for the renewable crop to renew.

There is a trail going back to the government giveaways to the railroads
that includes Champion, Plum Creek, and now Weyerhauser. Weyerhauser is
now in the real estate business, not timber around here. Can't beat the
southern plantations.

https://www.weyerhaeuser.com/timberlands/forestry/us-south/