the logging industry has done a crappy job of telling the story that there are only two -2- saw mills in America capable of cutting a tree over 40 inches. Paper and wood companies are using mills to produce products from small trees - they could not care about OLD Growth trees that are huge. If the two mills worked 24- 7 they could not handle all the wood from one state let alone from the west. Shame on the wood industry!!
This ligigation is for drama and to make business look bad. Shame on industry for not getting out the word.
The truth is available to them that wants it, but they have to actually
want it. I've watched Peter Jennings point to a stand of beautiful redwoods and sermonize that the beauty is only possible because these 'virgin' forests were left untouched. He had to have been lying, stupid, or both because the stand was second growth-- it had interspersed logging stumps and everything for all to see.
Maybe they were "almost virgin"-- or perhaps "virgin once again". I remember dating a girl like that.