The latest ‘sustained yield’ scam will devastate Montana’s national forests

By: George Ochenski

Outlets: Daily Montanan

Published: June 19, 2026

Words: 619

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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Way back in 1995 Bob Brown, the Republican president of the Montana Senate, called me into his office.

He had co-sponsored a bill with a pro-logging Missoula Democrat to establish a “sustained yield” level of logging on Montana’s state trust lands – and he was worried it wasn’t working out the way he hoped.

Bob was right to be worried then and Montanans are right to be worried now because Trump’s

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