What needs to happen here is what the R-G published a story on last week in Deschutes. A group calling itself the Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project, made up of loggers and enviros, was cooperating on a thinning project in the Cascades that provided a firefree summer for the town in question.  

http://deschutescollaborativeforest.org/

The irony of all this is that there is plenty of work to be done by loggers in the restoration of our western forests, just as there is work for enviros in figuring out how to do the restoration and then monitoring it. 

These folks from the DCFP could negotiate an end to the stand off and oversee the logging in the Goose. I wonder if they'd be interested. I bet the Cascades Forest Defenders would accept mediation if the DCFP was involved.