Although the Pacific Northwest forests don't have the same diversity of life as the rainforests, they are equally valuable for their individual tree size. The loss of salmon causes job losses in the salmon fishing industry, processing gear, recreation and tourism. Salvage logging is a commercial logging operation that harvests forest stands which have been affected by fire, disease, insects or blown down trees. It also allows a significant removal of living trees, in addition to dead or weakened trees. Salvage logging is damaging to forest soils, streams, wildlife, fisheries, and natural patterns of forest growth.
Loggers say they are losing their jobs over environmental regulations.
In reality, logging companies create unemployment by shipping logs overseas. This gave jobs to people in foreign countries that the local Northwest residents could have had. Public attention has focused on the threatened northern spotted owl, but the issue is not the survival of a single species versus logger's jobs. Rather, the owl is an indicator species of the collapsing of the entire Pacific Northwest old-growth ecosystem. British Columbia, Canada Loggers are bound by fewer restrictions than in the United States leading to such abominations as a 180-sq.