...Jim Denton sent me an email when we'd returned from the forest; "Logging has made the forest into a land without users. Animals don't like it, hunters don't like it, nor does virtually any other group, except for maybe the ATV crowd. Almost its single use for a 70-120 year period is trying to resurrect itself from the damage done by the last logging cycle. Not only is so much of the forest no longer available for multiple use but the Forest Service continues to pour funds into it for the whole regrowth cycle. Thinning, brushing, fire control, weed control, etc. They log at a loss or very marginal profit and then spend decades and mega dollars trying to get the forest ready for the next round of less than for profit logging. It makes no sense."
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