It is hard to believe logging companies are in business for the long term with an economic plan like this. A third issue is jobs. The last point often raised by opponents of the initiative is that if roads aren't built and the land logged, it will be destroyed by fire anyway. As far as I can tell, the fires raging across the West are not discriminating between forests with roads and those without. Which brings me back where I started.
Fires happen for a reason.
They rejuvenate forests, allow for new growth, new habitat, and bio-diversity. Logging forests so that they won't burn is ludicrous. No doubt the initiative will eventually cause the price of lumber to go up. But that may not be all bad either. It is easy to become victims of our own successes.