Once the original forest is logged out--which has happened to about 90% of Oregon's old growth--the ecosystems are never going to be the same again, no matter how many times the distressed land left behind is replanted.

The goal of perpetual profits for big timber is incompatible with the existence of healthy, biodiverse, biologically complex and fire resistant forests. To call the former "stewardship" is the worst kind of dishonesty imaginable. It reminds one of Orwell's dystopian novel "1984."