Zybach is indeed an industry hack, either that or just way out of touch with current research. I queried him about the AGW/fire link and his positions were such that I could scarcely believe he had any scientific credentials at all.  

He left me with the impression that forest management is an economic and political ideology masquerading as a science, kind of like the free market economics of Hayek and Friedman.
 
I looked at the climate change statement of the Society of American Foresters and it smacked of propaganda for the timber industry so badly that it confirmed my impressions of Mr. Zybach.

https://www.eforester.org/Main/Issues_and_Advocacy/Statements/Forest_Management_and_Climate_Change.aspx