That isn't true. The timber industry shut down for a number of reasons, the primary one being the collapse of the housing market. Secondarily, mill jobs disappeared because of mechanization and CAD/CAM. The overcutting of the 70's and 80's decimated the old forests and killed the mills set up to handle big logs. Environmental  protest is in there too, but in general it only stopped logging of specific cutting units. The spotted owl set-asides are the only reason we have any old growth remaining; you won't find it on private land. Private sales of unmilled logs to China bypass our own mills. Even our chips are sold to China. Logging jobs are reduced by three-fourths owing to machines like faller-bunchers, shovel-loaders, limber-trimmers and tracked yarders. The children of loggers are mostly out of work, living in single-wides with dead cars in the front yard, and drugs are a big problem.

""Nothing but the truth"? I think you need to work on that.