Sometime we win...National Forests and Wildlife Refuge

dave54 wrote:
... improve wildlife habitat, forest health, fire protection, watershed improvement, et al. Sometimes clearcutting is the best way to achieve the objectives...

Excuse me for being skeptical. A few here also said clear-cutting is good for wildlife and watershed but failed to explain how or why.

How can watershed be improved when there are no more roots that will hold water and soil rushing down on the streams?

Or, why when forest were untouched by men in days past have abundance of wildlife as if wildlife are immobile and won't move to forest and it's periphery if the conditions are not favorable to them.