What’s a paycheck worth? More to some people than others. Creating jobs and paychecks is, of course, among the important goals of Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act – a bill that blazes a trail to healthier, more productive and more sustainable forests in Montana. Big deal! So shouted one of the bill’s extreme critics in a recent commentary (March 3 Beacon: “Jon Tester, Hostage Negotiator”). Dave Skinner offered a simplistic, pessimistic formula of 5.5 jobs per million board feet of timber harvested to declare the Forest Jobs and Recreation…
