Mr. Walsh, shows his feeble grasp of natural resource matters while regurgitating unsubstantiated talking points. He claims "untended wilderness is more prone to disease and wildfire." Disease and wildfire aren't a major factor in Olympic Peninsula forests.
Wild Olympics erodes private property rights? How? I've owned, bought and sold private property here without once being told I can't do one thing or have to do another because part of the National Forest is designated as wilderness.
A "chilling effect" on industries? Seriously? A business will go elsewhere because they can't build a factory or warehouse on the West Fork of the Humptulips River?