Well, that's certainly an opinion... The lumber industries in the 90's were dead set on aggressively clearcutting old growth forest. Once environmentalists sta

Well, that's certainly an opinion... The lumber industries in the 90's were dead set on aggressively clearcutting old growth forest. Once environmentalists started having successes slowing them down, the lumber industry started using salvage logging exemptions to bypass environmental regulations and log protected areas. If a small fire ran through an old-growth area (a good and healthy event!), you could bet that it would soon be followed by an effort to cut down the 'damaged' surviving trees. The Timber Wars podcast is a pretty great recent look at the forest politics of the 80's and 90's. I think it does a great job of presenting many sides of the issues. At the end, it demonstrates a much closer relationship between current working environmentalists and lumber operations, with environmentalists even working to keep a mill open at one point. (Because they, too, support selective logging and healthy forests.) https://www.npr.org/podcasts/906829608/timber-wars https://www.npr.org/podcasts/906829608/timber-wars