What are the effects of logging on the environment?

The owner of the timber sells it and gets paid. The loggers that cut it get paid. The mill that buys it, cuts it and sells it gets paid. The companies that sell equipment and supplies to loggers get paid. The lumberyard that bought lumber from the mill sells it to builders, and gets paid. Builders use the lumber to build houses. They pay their workers, and sell the houses and get paid. You get a house to live in. The bank earns money from your mortgage, and uses that to pay interest to people that have savings accounts. The timber owner, loggers, mill hands, lumber yard crew, builders, carpenters take their earnings and buy things, which means someone else made money selling them gasoline, food, boots, jeans, cars, etc. The county or city gets taxes they would not have gotten on your new house. Last, the logger buys seedlings, and pays people to plant the new crop of trees that will grow up and become lumber or paper. Replanting of harvested timber has been required by law in the US for more than 50 years.