Selective forestry does not convert forests into blackberry fields.  You can make more board feet in the long run but you have to be more patient.

Dumping carcinogens into the air and neighbor's water supplies is the perfect crime.  The most serious health effects - cancer, birth defects, hormonal disruptions - often take years to manifest and our 18th century legal system doesn't understand delayed casualty.

I know a selective forester south of here who has managed his forest operation for decades without these poisons.  Unfortunately for him, the adjacent corporate clearcutter poisoned the land above his spring, and he got so sick from the poisons getting into his family's water supply he almost lost his liver function.