I don't doubt your word that fringe environmentalist groups are pretty well established in Oregon. That said, the idea that these groups (or prevailing attitud

I don't doubt your word that fringe environmentalist groups are pretty well established in Oregon. That said, the idea that these groups (or prevailing attitudes behind them) are preventing some form of logging that would actually help with wildfires (and yet is commercially viable) is something that you're more or less just making up from your hunches and anecdotes. At least here in Australia they just pull mature trees out and leave scrub as well as highly flammable waste behind. A lot of people need their asses kicked over this sort of issue: higher on the list are people who build right into the bush then yell bloody murder about controlled burns. CA definitely has a lot of these people, and there's probably a fake "greenie" undercurrent in the attitude (a sentimentalization of the bush). But the "greenies messed it all up" is a simplistic morality tale usually promulgated by people who know nothing about fire management and are looking to find something other than climate change to blame for our recent dire years.