Jose: Thanks -- this is the best way to document differences & fuel discussions. The history of silviculture is thousands of years old, same as agriculture. A primary purpose in removing forests by Europeans was to provide grazing lands for their domestic animals. These animals represented food, transportation, companionship, wealth, & -- literally -- "horsepower." One reason American settlers were so attracted to the Willamette Valley is because the conifer forests had been cleared thousands of years ago by purposeful fire & kept mostly free of invasive trees through regular burning ever since -- creating millions of acres of grasslands for grazing animals by displacing the people & wild animals who previously lived here. This story is not unique to western Oregon & does not support the blanket deforestation/plantation narrative promoted by many anti-logging activists. There are now far more trees spread over many thousands more acres in western Oregon than at any time in history.