The real question is do we want local corruption or federal corruption.
Our Founding Fathers were strong supporters of local/small government.
So according to that person, logging has cause extreme damage to their area. Fine then, when they take over the management of their area and when they have severe forest fires break out, or damage from extreme disease of that forest, then they get NO support from any disaster management as a result of their decisions to withdraw from the forest management of their area.