Hopefully, "both sides" will listen to each other.

A while back, a bunch of tree huggers blocked woods roads here in New Brunswick. Old growth forest. That same forest blew down a few months later in a windstorm and 6B cubic metres of timber was knocked down. Now, I know Mom Nature is queen, but the timber companies were right on that one, IF proper harvesting was done.

Conversely, as I have said on other threads, the past deeds of the timber companies have been appaling... especially when it comes to destroying the habitat of trout, salmon and others. "Overfishing"? Yes, but not near as bad as what the world's giant lumber companies did to spawning grounds in my province. If the fish can't spawn due to siltation of the waters due to greed, even the rich bastards will eventually starve.