Rip and tear logging is still destroying salmon habitat on the west coast?  Yep.

In scandanavia the eco-friendly logging nations have come up with machines that don't destroy the soil and the forest, and yet still remove selected trees and brush.  And even allow waste wood to be chipped for recycling, use in building materials, animal bedding, and energy recovery.

 They are also a lot safer for loggers.  Logging is even more dangerous than coal mining according to accident statistics.

We still see mounds of brush, ready to fuel forest fires after every clear cut logging sale here in northen Wisconsin.  Logging companies and pro-industry forestors still are not getting the message.  This industry needs to recycle this brush, not burn it, and do real selective cutting, instead of clearcutting.

Evidently they just will not do this on their own.  They need to be broought into line with environmentally beneficial forest managment policies.  From the attitude of elitism exhibited by forestors, it is clear that this will involve the replacement of many GOP/logging industry friendly appointees in forest services.