Another said the Monongahela should sell timber, and be self sustaining and not a burden to the taxpayer. No wilderness, no waste. His community needs it. He wants an environmentally safe harvest. The problem may be that today this traditional prescription as practiced may not be for the good of anyone but more for short-term timber industry benefit, while intolerably offending so many others.
Loggers destroy the wild forests diminishing enjoyment for many.
Though as many said they live in wood houses, burn wood and use toilet paper, these unroaded areas of even 1000 acres need not be where wood is obtained. Finally, it may not be sustainable as more and more are coming to believe. It may be that business as usual has propelled us into today s world without examining the ramifications of what we are doing, where the wall of unsustainability confronts us all. There appear to two opposing drivers of forest management. Many of these are visitors, others never even go there, but want that option.