Readers who are not under an ideological disability may be interested in what Green elder statesman David Suzuki has concluded on the issue of native regrowth forestry at;
http://ianmott.blogspot.com/

Here in Western Australia, logging of all old growth forests was stopped the day after the Gallop Labor government won office in 2001. Five years on, the industry is smaller and employs fewer people, while the so-called protected forests (in 35 new national parks) are being seriously degraded by a lack of management. Feral pigs, human interference via trail bikes and uncontrolled firewood removal, spread of dieback fungus, inadequate use of fire for management purposes and lack of silivicultural treatment for those forests logged 50 or more years ago are now major impacts on both old growth and regrowth forests which would have been funded by revenue generated by logging.

The green movement's response is now to try and protect old growthy trees. As well, some small areas of regrowth forest which are of moderate conservation value have shot to the top of the anti-logging hit parade, more to keep green issues alive electorally than to actually make a difference to environmental values on the ground.

The end result is that many of the conservation values that remained in our WA forests after 150 years of logging are now at serious risk because the ideologically driven anti-logging movement has achieved its goals. The movemnet now couldn't care less about the forests they've protected from the chainsaw and have turned a blind eye to the biological chansaws devastating the forests.

Sure, there are problems in Tasmania's forests and Gunns can do better, but logging and the money it provides for management may be the old long-term saviour for many of Australia's forests. This is especially so if urban-based voters don't tell their governments to make more money available for forest management, something I'm not seeing five years after the end of old growth logging in WA.

Bernie,

brilliant thinking - Cut down more old growth forest in order to save it!!

Trouble is, you are serious.