Mining timber resources

After the 2009 fires in Victoria the reeling communities called for tourists to return in order to help restore a sense of normality, as they did after the 2006 fires, and as Queensland and Victorian towns have after the floods. Not once did I hear a call for loggers to resume operations as quickly as possible. Yet tourism and the fire ravaged forest are both threatened by the inflexible forestry industry and its "harvesting operations."
Harvesting is defined as the product of any action, or the outcome of any effort. Vicforest is not harvesting timber. Vicforests is mining timber - extracting the timber from its natural source.