They dso it to feed thier family, to provide jobs. To stop lumbering is to put millions unemployed. The people are buying the paper. You can't choose what to leave out of a paper. A business man may have no reason for reading the farmers section but the farmer does.
People buy it.
Every single war has ended with the signing of paper. Children write letters to santa. Men write to a long lost love. Mens ideas were meant to be put on paper. Logging companies ain't what they used to be.