If you look at the final approved plan, specific to the project, there’s been hearing after hearing, public input after public input and court case after court case. These logging projects have been reduced and reduced, studied and studied again.....to death. There’s a mixture of clear cutting in areas deemed best for clear cutting, selective logging in other portions, heli-logging and thinning in other areas. It’s also stipulated that the wood (all or a substantial portion) had to be milled locally.
Let it rot away or harvest a renewable resource? Logging can hopefully be a viable option for the local communities once again. Logging, when done responsibly, can be a long term, self-sustaining economic driver in areas with little economy. 👍
