State land classifications reduce forests to timber-producing parcels.

Evidence

To own the land at Shotpouch, which is designated as timberlands, Franz was required to register an approved forest management plan for his new property. He wryly wrote his dismay that his land was classified “not as forestland, but timberland,” as if the sawmill was the only possible destiny for a tree. Franz had an old-growth mind in a Doug Fir world. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1055

Categorization

• XREF: Infrastructure/legal-systems thread — echoes ch. 4’s land-as-property vs. land-as-gift, and the law-as-naming-power idea from ch. 44. — connects to: Forests changed from common subsistence resources to private monetized assets via land reform. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 34; State land-use laws redefined land development as a public rather than strictly private matter — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 939

Broader Connections

• Forests changed from common subsistence resources to private monetized assets via land reform. #expands (0.85) — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 34
• State land-use laws redefined land development as a public rather than strictly private matter #complicates (0.75) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 939