Mr. Galt; Your calling environmentalists "whackos" immediately disqualifies you as someone who has any idea what you're talking about. Mr. Van Atta makes many valid points.  Forests thrived for hundreds of thousands of years before humans began mass amounts of logging.  Fire is a natural and necessary component for healthy forests.   Public forests in Oregon are one of the top ten forests in the world for the carbon they sequester.  Private tree farms are being logged so much that they are carbon neutral.

  We need to preserve and restore our public native forests for all the important ecosystem services they provide; habitat for wildlife, water and air purification, carbon sequestration and social and cultural benefits.  It's WAY PAST time to do the right thing so we may have a decent future for all life; we are in the midst of the sixth mass species extinction due to human activity. Hempcrete is one material to use as an alternative to wood; it takes four months to grow.