I worked in forestry for years, and it is indeed a renewable resource. I am surprised that a few comments were correct in identifying the strips as DOT land, thereby only harvestable by permit. This surprise stems from the astounding amount of ignorance about forests and the way that they work and are managed on the environmentalists side of the argument. In college, I did quite a bit of research on the subject as I care deeply about my homestate Oregon forests. In the course of writing numerous reports on environmentalist concerns on the west coast, I found that the VAST majority of environmentalist claims were based on either manufactured propaganda or outright lies. Most environmentalist groups are vindictive organizations that survive on stirring up outrage that will translate into massive charitable and governmental contributions to their own pockets. Many of them are the worst kind of uneducated hypocrites, and their efforts do more to actually harm manageable forest land than to conserve it.

googling "wall mart is evil"? Hahahahaha. that's a good way to get objective information. why don't you just google "everyone who agrees with my worldview" you'll probably get more bandwagons to jump on. Way to go.

I agree with Xan. sounds like the type of "tug at your heartstrings story that sounds like horrible corporate maliciousness on the surface, but once you take an objective look it's more complicated than wallmart stealing money from the mentally challenged. It's easy to jump on the anti wallmart bandwagon, but given the overtly right vs. left political aspects to the issue, wallmart is probably far different than it's portrayal by the media and the anti corporation nazis. also, calling wallmart greedy is ignorant. the nature of capitalism is based on greed, and that's a good thing. everyone working for the betterment of their own lives has resulted in the most robust economic structure in human history. But if going to target makes you sleep better at night....go ahead. it's no different than going to wallmart.

Lighten up people. I don't want to live in a world that's too sensitive to laugh at itself. or others even........take some laxative and have a beer.