Assumption?
How about looking around for a fact or two?
Such as wandering past the ABSOLUTE WORST cases of clear cut logging you can find after those evil capitalists moved on and take note of the new trees and growth. Even if there wasn't any attempt at all to reseed.
Then, I'll run you by a few areas around Montana that have experienced the results of your enlightened regulations. (I'm certain Bray can show you the same thing around his place.)
Those fires that get started in trashy stands get so much fuel that they burn extra hot and fast and wind up sterilizing the ground as well as burning up trees and any wildlife that happens to get caught up in the mess.
That leaves what we've come to call Sierra Club clear cuts:
-Some burned up trees still standing around, waiting for the next thunderstorm to finish them off. (There always seems to be a bunch of lawyers go to their favorite judge to keep those capitalists away from even cutting scrap, y'know.)
-Lots and lots of fallen burnup. Same deal as the standing stuff.
-Some weeds and grasses, unless it gets too dry for the remaining soil (I guess I missed mentioning the soil erosion after the fire...) to even grow weeds.
.
There's a place just like that North of where I live.
It's called Bull Mountain, the fire (it was called the Hawk Creek fire) happened in 2008.
Nothing much else (besides the occasional smaller Tstorm caused burnoff of surrounding trees) has happened around there for almost ten years now.
I'd *assume* that your regulations have done a first class job of "wiping out" that little bit of forest.
I just damn wish that was the only case.
Sierra club is evil.
They are land grabbers.
They buy some land and then file a law suit to make the surrounding lands Protected.
Then the file a suit demanding egress and regress through those lands, which effectively gives them sole use of it but they have no tax on the land.
They make it thier own private Idaho
Last fall’s fires that wiped out the Columbia Gorge Refuge is a blackened forest they are now fighting to keep the mills from harvesting or let them stand and attract insects to wipe out the rest of the forests. That is responsible regulation.