You still will have pristine forest. Lots of stuff burnt, so the loggers won't get anything out of it short-term, but long-term it takes much more than a fire to kill a forest. The only thing that can kill a forest is ppl logging it unsustainably and not replacing like with like when they cut trees down. Hence the worry about letting the timber companies "thin the underbrush".

If the timber companies could be persuaded to act in their own best long-term interests, then it'd be OK. But as with fishermen, they tend to prefer the short-term profit (nice high yields in clear-cutting forests) to long-term survival.

Graham.