Agreed, at face value.
However, keep in mind that B.C. forests have been decimated by the Pine Beetle for at least the past 15 years. "If" this company is taking trees that have been compromised by the Pine Beetle, then that is a different story.
Conversely, if the company is bidding on, winning and taking healthy "Primary Forests", then yeah, fuck them. And, fuck B.C. Forestry for even putting "Primary Forests" up for auction.
When Mt. St. Helens blew up in 1980, the USFS would not allow any of the "blowdown" to be harvested. Tens, if not hundreds of Square miles of perfectly good timber sat there and rotted. All the while, standing timber was harvested in other areas, further de-nuding the forest. How the hell does that make sense ?
Presently, the warshington state DNR (I assume along with the USFS) is letting the Bolt Creek fire around Index and Skykomish) "burn itself out". The gawd damned thing has been burning for close to month. At what point/when is it deemed finally critical to go in and put the damned thing out ? It continues to burn because the psychopaths in charge want it to burn. They want to manipulate society into believing that mankind is destroying everything in his/her gluttonous pursuit of never ending energy supplies. Jesus, just go do your jobs and go put the fucking fire out.
Personally, I smell a rat on this one. I get the impression that either all the facts are not being presented, or that they are being presented selectively. All this, in order to mold public opinion/outrage into a package that fits in with the presenter's intentions/agenda.