Douglas fir lumber still at home centers?

Western forests have been devastated by bark beetles for many years. Many states prohibit import of affected wood.

In Texas, it is probably just because it comes from so far away so it is too expensive compared to other softwoods. You will probably have to go to a more high end lumber supplier to find it. The only DF that I see at DFW HD and Lowes are the 4x4's which I have resawn to make 1x4s and glued into panels to simulate vertical grain DF for my lathe cabinet. The quality is usually pretty low so you have to really cull through the stack to get decent stuff.

The recent building boom before the Covid pandemic created some sort of shortage and drove the prices up which may have caused shortages in places like Texas. Right now the lumber mills in Oregon have a glut of Douglas and hemlock logs salvaged from the large forest fires in the past couple of years. The current economic down turn has significantly reduced the price of lumber and plywood made from fir. Unfortunately the quality of the lumber has been going down for years because they are harvesting younger trees with large growth rings and lower density.

Location and distance to the forest is everything. Douglas fir is easy to find and cheap in western USA, while SYP is unobtainium and expensive.
Have opposite supply problem on east USA, where SYP is cheap.
Since Texas does not have any managed softwood forestry areas, you get what ever can be bought and shipped south cheaper today.

CaptainKlutz said:

Since Texas does not have any managed softwood forestry areas, you get what ever can be bought and shipped south cheaper today.

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Huh? Texas is only second to Alaska in total forested acreage and East Texas has a large wood products industry. They don't call it the piney woods for nothing.