Thank you, Mr. Niemi.  This is timely and convincing.

The economic critique of salvage logging also makes perfect sense from an ecological point of view. Disturbing subsoil layers with heavy equipment is sure to further disrupt one of the most important parts of any healthy woodland: the subterranean networks of roots, mycelium and microorganisms that regulate the flow of nutrients and growth rates over a given area of trees and soil.

Once that is gone, it will never come back, and without it . . . no forest will reach optimum health, even if spared the axe, for a long, long time, if ever.

The fly in your ointment, however, might be us; I'm not sure people can continue to live where we do now if huge fires are going to be allowed to "burn themselves out." I lived on a seacoast for many years and saw how hurricanes were forcing a "retreat" from the sea.  Maybe the time has come to discuss a "retreat" from the woods.