I spent my summers as a youth at a camp in Algonquin Provincial Park and am deeply attached to it; I still visit it every summer and have a cottage just 30 kilometers from the West Gate. Since the sixties, I have just accepted the mantra that logging in the park should be banned. The Wildlands League has been fighting to end logging since 1968; They still say on their website that “Logging must end in the park. Old growth forests, brook trout lakes and streams must be immediately protected, and 40% of the roads in the park must be shut down and restored.” So, it was with a degree of trepidation that I accepted an invitation to “an immersive tour of the forest sector—from sustainable woodland management and harvesting through to sawmilling and wood processing” from WoodWorks and the Ontario Forest Industry Association. I may write often about wood design and buildings, but I worried that, to paraphrase Bismarck, forest products are like sausages – it is better not to see them being made. I wasn’t sure how an aging hippie treehugger like me would react to watching them chop trees in my beloved Algonquin Park.