We've been down this road before...corn row plantings of "super trees" surround my property.
After the latest heat wave, a growing percentage of them died or are on the way. To call it a forest is absurd, they are tree farms and are fire traps compared to a canopied, diverse forest. This isn't about customers either, it's about sustainability with all of what the forest offers. BTW, how are you doing with the poison oak?