The environmentalists are always the fly in the ointment.
Another big problem is a lack of funding to manage the timber properly. I know a guy who running for Mayor of Palmdale, California. He told me the lack of funding is the major problem in trying to get any projects going.
Here is a link to property tax rates in California Counties, not that it matters. ;)
BTW, when I was a young man in Chicago, I learned pulp wood management and took a home study course. I also attended a week long summer camp in Eagle River, Wisconsin called Trees For Tomorrow. treesfortomorrow.com/ ;)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke