I just spent the last week in Central Oregon, and actually watched them fighting the Cache Mountain fire. Lotsa smoke thereabouts, and was within a few miles of the Cache Mountain, Eyerle, and the one near Lake Billy Chinook.
They've been doing a lot of controlled thinning/burning in the area, though probably it's far less than 1% of the forest land thereabouts. I wouldn't be too surprised to see the folks living within the Sisters Ranger District, at any rate, to be clamoring for a lot more of it ASAP.
The results of that thinning have somewhat returned things to the way the forest looked in 1900. I seem to recall that it looked pretty much that way even into the 60s, when I can first remember it, though I suspect that balance was maintained by some pretty heavy selective logging in the area (it's almost imperceptible now).
I think that the greenies thereabouts may well begin to see the point -- though it's the idiots in Portland and Eugene that are the ones filing the lawsuits, and they seem impervious to anything other than a mystical reverence for unmolested trees.
OTOH, I would really hate to see this used as an excuse for clear-cutting in the area -- which IMHO is the real (mostly aesthetic) reason that many of these people file lawsuits in the first place.
My family knows a couple of old-time (pre-EPA) USFS hands are disgusted with the current forest-management methods, which seem to be governed by the dancing elephants of Big Timber and the Environmentalists -- neither of whom have any particular interest in doing the right thing.