I'm pleased that private forests, mostly managed for maximum fiber, are producing logs for the wood products industry. The real issue with this commentary is the assumption, the wrong assumption, that 'management' means maximum fiber logged off the land. Management rests of goals, not any one goal. I want first and foremost to have the goal for federal forests and other public lands to be that we manage for great habitat and clean water, logging when necessary to return the forest ecosystem to supporting these attributes. Healthy forest are not tree farms. We had minimal logging on national forest lands till the over logging of private lands. Now we see the return of productive private tree farms and that seems right. I would also add that well managed forests be fire resilient...closed canopy, old growth is pretty fire resilient. And it look like it locks up carbon as well. So the real conversation is around goals, and then let managers and forest science manage for these goals.