The Western Kenai Peninsula underwent major logging prescriptions for "salvage logging"  using fire as the excuse and basis of fear to move this forward with few safeguards for the rest of the ecosystem.  Water sampling parameters were taken for many years showing water temperature increases.  The areas opened up became hot spots.  They also became deserts in the winter for moose with no cover.  The Forest Practices Act had a 66 foot buffer which of course does nothing to cool water temperatures and most of this blows down.  The Forest Health Initiative in 1993 alluded to the fact that during the Pot Hole lake fire the spruce Bark Beetle trees actually slowed the path of fire.  It declared the cure is worse than the disease.
The Timber Task Force and the State foresters on the other hand pushed hard using scare tactics to open logging as fast as possible.  Circle D E came in along with other small operators, bringing their own workers...they went bankrupt.  Alaska once again lost.