Reply #126: It's not the logging I'm against, it's the clear-cutting.

[Odin2005]

Our national forests were first set up in order to show an example of good, sustainable land management, and clear-cutting is not good, sustainable land management.

Edit: Oh my, the urban pseudo-environmentalist stupidity in this thread makes my head hurt. This whole "nature is 100% sacred and we should never touch her" attitude betrays one who knows jack about nature and our place in it, indeed, it perpetuates the same "humans are above nature" mindset that leads to the raping of the environment. We are a part of nature and thus we have to use nature's resources to survive, but we have to do that in a sustainable way, which is why I disagree with the poster decrying "utilitarian attitudes towards nature", because, as I said, we are a part of nature and thus have to use nature to survive. And we HAVE to manage things if we want sustainability.