Thought-experiment time: You’re the U.S. Forest Service and you desperately need to revive the Arizona logging industry to save businesses, stimulate green energy production and help protect forested towns and endangered watersheds from megafires. However, the industry is hanging on by its fingernails for lack of wood, thanks to the slow Forest Service processing time and the cost of getting rid of the low-value biomass. What do you do? How about offering a big logging company a huge subsidy to cut just the big tree … and haul them to Wyoming. “That’s crazy,” said Eastern Arizona Counties Association Executive Director Pascal Berlioux at last week’s meeting of the Natural Resources Working Group. “This feels deeply ironic,” said Novo BioPower president Brad Worsley, who has been struggling to find enough wood to keep the state’s only wood-burning power plant in operation.