Feeding America's insatiable appetite for lumber
On Point | Podcast
WBUR
4.2 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The Trump administration wants to expand the American lumber industry by logging more trees in national forests and raising tariffs on lumber imports. The impact that could have on the domestic timber industry.
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| 0:34.7 | WBUR Podcasts, Boston. |
| 0:38.3 | This is On Point. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm Megna Chakra-Bardi. |
| 0:45.3 | I want you to think for a second about the woods. |
| 0:49.3 | What comes to mind? |
| 0:51.3 | The calm, the sound of birds chirping, maybe a twigs snapping as you walk along. |
| 0:58.3 | Well, also in many forests, there's this prevailing sound. |
| 1:10.1 | Sound of a timber harvest, of course. |
| 1:13.5 | Utilized and revered by the indigenous peoples of this continent, harvested and prized by settlers, |
| 1:20.2 | America's forests are arguably more important in this nation's story than is oil. |
| 1:27.6 | Even Alexis de Tocqueville, that early biographer of America, was awed by this country's forests. |
| 1:33.4 | In 1831, on a nine-day trip along the Saginaw Trail in Michigan, |
| 1:39.1 | Toakville wrote, quote, in this ocean of foliage, who can point the way? |
| 1:46.8 | In vain, you climb the tallest trees only to find yourself surrounded by others still taller. The forest climbs with you everywhere, and this same |
| 1:53.4 | forest stretches from where you stand all the way to the North Pole and the Pacific Ocean, end |
| 1:59.9 | quote. |
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