Cutting purposefully increases ecological diversity. It creates different age classes of forests allowing for a mix of different flora and thus more beneficial wildlife habitat.

The forest service has best management practices for forestry as others have mentioned that do not just clear cut the land scape. They do it in patches, leave wetland buffers and do thinning, and staged cuts for the benefit of wildlife.

Think about monoculture crops, a monoculture mature forest is the same.

A cut over area regrows first with grasses, forbs, wildflowers, seed and fruit bearing shrubs, excellent wildlife food sources. Early successional forest also provides cover from predators. Open mature forest is often a death trap for many prey species.

This is beneficial for many species such as pollinators, butterflies, numerous bird species, deer and moose.

Old growth is the largest store of carbon, however, forests aged 0 - 50 have the highest sequestration rates.

Unfortunately this type of messaging from “environmentalists” sounds all warm and fuzzy but is a detriment to biodiversity as we as humans have suppressed many forms of ecological disturbance that are beneficial to the ecosystem.