Despite persistent public outcry — and the hope that Gov. Eric Holcomb might intervene — the controversial plan to log trees in the Yellowwood Forest Backcountry Area has moved forward. Dave Seastrom, a Brown County resident who has been working with the Indiana Forest Alliance to protest the logging, said that he and an associate hiked out to the area on Tuesday and could see that operations were underway. “We went to check it out,” Seastrom said, “and almost immediately saw a truck full of logs.” He said they also saw heavy machinery. “It’s pretty hard to accept,” he said, “that after all the contact we’ve made with the governor that his choice in the matter is to remain silent.” Tara Wolf, a spokeswoman with the Department of Natural Resources, confirmed logging is now underway. “The contractors have began work,” she said, “pursuant to the sale held on November 9, 2017.”