[vkou]

The timber industry was decimated by improvements in productivity, automation, international changes in taxes, tariffs, lumber supply and demand, and, most importantly - because it logged in an unsustainable fashion.

But blaming a bunch of hippie environmentalists is, of course, easier, then taking responsibility for its mistakes.

[Frondo]

And what if we'd have let them cut down every patch of old growth forest?

How many more years of logging jobs would those communities have gotten, before the jobs would dry up because the trees are all gone? 10? 20? And then who would the loggers blame, when there's just no old growth forest left?