No question there. Clearcutting is ecocide. We'll never get past our problems with fires, erosion, loss of wildlife etc. until clearcutting ceases to be the norm.

Many places with substantial open land suffers similar destructive assumptions, apparently. I've been reading George Monbiot's essays about Wales and the Scots highlands, where the only land uses anyone normally considers are sheep and deer stalking.

These have so severely denuded the land for so long that generations of Brits have grown up thinking that treeless, close-cropped, wildlife-less heath and moor are actually the natural landscape. 

Monbiot spends some time with a group called Trees for Life that is rewilding/restoring the Caledonian Forest of Scotland, as we should be doing here in Cascadia. The Cafferatas have got a small part of the picture, but still assume that tree farms/clearcutting are normal.