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John Talberth runs the Center for Sustainable Economy, an environmental advocacy organization in Portland, Oregon. He is an old general from the PNW "timber wars" of the 1990s, directly involved in pursuing the spotted owl injunctions. He has long been opposed to intensive management of native conifer forests. It's amusing to me to hear him advocating for harvest in somebody else's back yard. I suppose that's been the subtext the entire time, with so much harvest volume having migrated to the US southeast following the spotted owl injunctions.