How can we get timber production back up to standards where it helps bring back the U.S. economy?

I am a forester, and I have been trying to figure this question out ever since the timber market took a huge plunge, and drove housing the way of the dinosaurs. Of course, I do PROPER silviculture, and maintain forests the way I learned in school and follow my books as bibles (just thought I would throw that out to people who will run me down for even picking up a chainsaw). I do my practices in Pennsylvania, which provides most of the materials for house interiors. But the northwest part of the country brings in most of the framing work for homes, and that part of the market has been throw into hole and left to die. My studies say that they haven't exhausted their supply, and are regenerating forests faster than they can cut them.

When the housing market took a plunge, so did the timber market. However I think this can be reversed, and give our economy a major boost if we find a way to produce lumber at a certain price which would kick-start the housing market, and if Mr. Bush would just give that stimulus package to the private businesses instead of Wall Street, I think it would work. Please give me some of your input. I know it may be hard to see what I wrote as a "question", but that is just how I word things. If you have trouble figuring out what I'm asking for, send me an email at abender2144@yahoo.com