Max Steiner was born in Sacramento, California. Steiner served in the U.S. Army from 2005 to 2009 and has served in the U.S. Army Reserve. He earned a degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 2011. Steiner's career experience includes working as a diplomat with the Foreign Service and a policy analyst with the RAND Corporation.
Spend $1 billion/year to subsidize the start-up costs and streamline the regulations for greater mill capacity and responsible logging in the North State. This will include market interventions to make American timber more competitive. We have too much biomass in our forests and we need to incentivize the market to thin the small, crowded trees that threaten our communities.