What many of these screaming, rabid environmentalist fail to realize is that a forest needs to be managed. Unregulated growth of a forest will eventually diminish the natural ecosystem in a forest and result in drastically reduced biodiversity.
What is more, a forest that is left wild will eventually burn; and burn dramatically and uncontrollably. Forests must be managed either by controlled burning or logging in order to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildland fire and ensure a diverse forest ecosystem, otherwise your precious natural ecosystem is going to be turned to ash and require decades or centuries to recover.
I think most liberals that are opposed to logging have never set foot in a forest, or never stopped to take note of the ecosystem therein as they wandered through what they thought must be some eco-friendly liberal amusement park.
True, not only that but young forests absorb more CO2, than the old growth which are CO2 neutral, well at least until they burn.