I agree. After re-reading the article, it may be that Wyden and the Democrats are worried that there may be absolutely no timber recovered from this fire. Although they and there constituents secretly desire this, it makes the existing regulatory process look unworkable. It also calls into question of why the Congress should continue to fund an agency that no longer produces anything.
BTW, my friend had two cats and skidder on that fire...he said the waste and incompetence was beyond anything he had ever seen. Picture heli-torch operations in the middle of the afternoon in order to burn out islands of unburned timber. Picture logging ridgetops to create a fire line. All the logs dragged to the road. Then going back after the fire, and dragging the logs back into the burned over forest in the name of erosion control. Unbelievable.