This is the only timber industry argument that really has any validity.
Nobody wants to see people put out of work.
Many Red Cloud Thunder activists come from timber families, as a matter of fact. The last thing we want to do is deprive rural people of their livelihoods. That is why the hypocrisy of the big timber companies like Weyerhauser, Georgia-Pacific, and Roseburg Lumber is so ironic. Oregon could have had a sustainable, labor-intensive forest products industry, if we had managed our timber carefully. Instead, these companies cut everything they could get, as fast as they could.