Some states may be well equipped, but a vast majority of logging takes place on National Forests, making it a federal, not state, issue.
Wrong, the majority of logging takes place on private property. The preservationists have been very effective in surpressing logging on Federal lands in the last 20 years. The result has been the extreme fire seasons as evidenced in places like Colorado last year. Most logging companies already leave a 100’ buffer around streams to keep runnoff from clogging up spawnning beds. This is just another surrogate issue created to stop logging in all western forests.
So when your house burns down because of a lightning strike on federal forest land creates a forest fire of dead beattle kill lodgepole pine spreads to your subdivision, you will have nobody to blame except yourself.