You may feel strongly one way or another but I can tell you after attending the last series of forestry meetings, we have doubled the amount of cutting in our State and National forests in the last several years. The foresters will tell you that they could be cutting more. Until you go to a meeting, you can't appreciate how many different users and groups all voice very strong opinions. Horse riders, campers, tree huggers, bunny huggers, hunters, joggers, loggers, mountain bikers, adjacent landowners, etc. I personally don't like to see the aggressive cutting we now see, but it corresponds to a big down turn in funding when a 100 year provision went away in 2008, I believe. Iirc, the state fair was similarly impacted. Is it coincidence or necessity to add revenue through state and federal land logging?