You’re telling me that a few logs for shakes or fences would be worth the scientific value of a forest that has been growing uninterrupted since the last ice age 10,000 years ago. Some individuals growing over 1000 years old.
Think of the opportunity for our understanding of forest evolution.
The sheer diversity of biology must be studied.
We can learn so much from this ‘laboratory’.
For human health the benefits are immense.
Non-destructive testing protocols will be developed to harvest the knowledge.