"If the state loses its base of roughly 200 interconnected sawmills, pulp buyers and family-owned tree-cutting contractors, advocates say, who will be left to work in the woods to make them usable, beautiful and safe, and at what cost?"
- Usable for whom, and for what? They serve plenty of use for the life within them.
- The forests will be immeasurably more beautiful without industrialized human intrusions, decimation and attempts at domination.
- Safe? For whom? The only way forests are unsafe are if you are stupid enough to build a house in a place that consistently burns and expect to be bailed out.
“Our fear is that we could lose our infrastructure — the base of knowledge and experience of working in the forest,” said Mary Sexton, the director of the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. “Once it’s gone, it’s gone.”
Once it's gone, nature benefits. Everything living in those woods wins. Forests know how to manage themselves quite well.
From a New York Times article on Montana's logging industry. Not surprising.
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