Gal, You use oil, gas and minerals, AND wood, every day, don't you? And of course you eat stuff you get in a store that you can't grow yourself, and your life is better for it. It's got to come from somewhere, and we aren't allowed to move it out from under pretty places to someplace ugly. Boom and bust isn't the greatest, but what would you rather have -- bust all the time? Or nothing at all? What would Pinedale be like if nobody could visit because there wasn't a highway or gas pumps or IGA? Would you be there?
What isn't being acknowledged here is that wilderness and "roadless areas" can't be managed for desired outputs in the way that open or "unprotected" lands can be. If the vegetative component of the habitat goes in the wrong direction, then the "output" desired, in your case good hunting, goes away for however long it takes for "Nature" to do whatever SHE, not "hunters and anglers," want.
Up hills slow, Down hills fast Tonnage first and Safety last.
