One thing that struck me when visiting Germany in summer was how logging seemed to be selective, leaving much of the trees standing. I passed a forest by train

One thing that struck me when visiting Germany in summer was how logging seemed to be selective, leaving much of the trees standing. I passed a forest by train and despite logs piled up next to it, and logging vehicles around, you could not tell from the train that the forest was being logged. While in Scotland, if they harvest a forest, they do it like harvesting wheat. They just leave a wasteland of stumps behind. Looks horrible, must be bad for the ecosystem and I am wondering if mudslides will be more common now, since a lot of forest is on hillsides.