I remember very well the spotted owl issue.

The vast majority of timber industry jobs were replaced by mechanization.
Mills were bypassed because the best of our logs were being sold in raw form to Japan. I remember reading at the time that Japan was burying them in sand to preserve them knowing we would soon run out. Probably planned to sell them back to us at a nice profit.
Logging methods were destroying fish runs. The timber industry admits this now.
Logging was happening at such a rapid rate that the remaining jobs would have been gone anyway.
But the teabagger types needed something other than plain old greed to blame their lot in life on.
If you want to get mad at a Dem get mad at Gary Locke for the Forest and Fish compromise. Fifty foot inner zone stream buffers. That's not even twenty yards. Plus, the timber industry having admitted old logging rules were killing salmon used a loophole in Forest and Fish and rushed in to get permits to log vast amounts under the old rules knowing full well salmon would die while publicly tauting how they had changed their ways.

"Btw trees grow back. Once logged they are replanted like any other crop"

I really like that one. Just wait a few hundred years right? Or else cut a giant and harvest a twig.

How about "Logging prevents forest fires"?