President Trump believes Americans should make their own stuff instead [of importing it]. For example, consider his comments on softwood lumber: “We don’t need their lumber. We have massive fields of lumber. We don’t need their lumber; we have to unrestrict them because stupid people put, you know, restrictions on, but I can do that with an executive order, we don’t need anything they have,” said Donald Trump at a recent press conference. … The overwhelming evidence is that the US actually does need Canadian lumber. …Realistically, it’s crazy to be discussing a return to historic logging patterns, simply out of a desire to avoid imports. Yes, the US has more trees than it presently logs. But just because a county has trees doesn’t mean it should log them all. …forests must be managed sustainably. Sustainability is not a left-wing “woke” conspiracy; it’s a practical, necessary, and real-world approach. You can’t harvest trees faster than they grow.