I live in Western Oregon and this is where I do my work to help educate and wake others up to ALL the ecosystem services our forests provide.  What we should be doing is implementing a carbon tax that would make lumber much more expensive, due to the carbon a living forest sequesters, which here is one of the top ten in the WORLD and include the cost of healing a forest and what externalities are involved-- should be included in the price of lumber.  This would promote alternatives such as hempcrete, bamboo, reusing building materials, smaller homes and offices, remodeling rather than demolishing existing buildings, etc.  We have GOT to change how we use natural resources, currently we are using up to 5 times the resources the Earth can replenish!  This is a recipe for mass extinction!
Every bit of forest we can save from the chainsaw makes a difference.