That's an interesting take. The most recent housing boom started at around 1991 when it had bottomed out at around 750 thousand US housing starts. from there it climbed to about 2.3 million starts in 2007, then dropped to a low of a half million starts nationally in 2009. I think it's wobbling around at about 1.2 million annual starts now, maybe a little more. The last dip was the deepest since at least 1960 and probably since 1945, and the recovery has been the slowest, measured in housing starts.

Of course environmental regulations hit public lands the most, but they are crucial to good water supplies and to fisheries. Maybe that will change under Trump, as it did under Reagan, whose policies largely liquidated Old growth stands of Douglas fir, Sitka spruce, and redwood. What is left should be saved. I agree that some cut-over federal lands should be logged more. You are aware that BLM and USFS have been steadily underfunded for decades, year after year?