I'm no fan of logging and especially of clear cutting. Every time I travel to the OP it makes me sick to see all the barren hills. The Quinault reservation is especially distressing as it was really a case of massive exploitation. I would venture to guess that the majority of loggers are Democrats but I don't know. I do know that most of the Republicans I know are fishermen and do not endorse the logging practices that have ruined our forests and rivers. If you aread the signs that the timber companies put up that tell when it was clearcut (harvested) then look at when it was replanted and then look at the small trees you can see that it will be a long time until the trees are large again. I haven't researched the progress being made if any with logging more responsibly. I do know that the Forest and Fish Act in this state that gets alot of publicity with Governor Locke's picture on it and Weyerhausers logo is a real spin program...They promote themselves as if they are doing good things for the forests and rivers but they sure lobbied hard to keep the setbacks closer to rivers so they could log more acreage. Just hop in a plane and fly over our state and Vancouver Island and it will make you sick if clearcutting bothers you. The programs to clean up the slogged forests have alot of merit and are endorsed by forestry folks. The problem with the debate is that the environmental side always wants to stop everything without compromise thereby creating an adversarial situation instead of a coalition that may be able to make some headway. Closing all the roads to the forests and stopping all logging is not realistic unless we start deporting millions of people and reduce our population dramatically. I'm for that but not much chance that will happen. Most likely our population will continue to grow and habitat will continue to shrink including our beautiful forests. If I were 20 year younger I'd move to Alaska.