Feeding America’s insatiable appetite for lumber (NPR Podcast)

By Will Walkey and Meghna Chakrabarti
National Public Radio – Boston
May 8, 2025
Category: Business & Politics
Region: United States

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. NPR Boston hosted Ryan Dezember (Wall Street Journal), Scott Dane, (American Loggers Council), Jim Manke, (Manke Lumber Company), Troy Jackson, (logger and previous president of the Maine Senate), and Randi Spivak, (Center for Biological Diversity).

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