Every town in my area is/was a logging town. Admittedly, we can't go around stripping the whole damn place but according to valid estimates "before" all the enviral $hit hit the fan, there were more trees in the state then than there were when L+C were here for the first time. The loggers around here knew a long time ago that a replant meant a reharvest in the future and job security. But the nazis care more for old big dying trees than they do for young growing healthy trees even though the old trees are far less efficient, ecologywise. The spotted owl thrives in margins (clearcut border regions) because the small rodents they feed on thrive in cleared area. I could go on and on but the point is that enviralists are off kilter 9.99999999 times out of 10 in their assumptions about nature and it seems that they really only care about getting rid of society.
EBUCK