Yes. Forest lands need to be "rewilded". This would definitely require changing the species growing there, with an eye to creating diversity and greater resilience, INSTEAD of increasing timber harvest.

The annual growth in board feet, cited by the author, is mostly in monoculture tree plantations, including on federal land, that were planted too close together for fire management. What this means is unpalatable for environmentalists: they need to be thinned. 

What would happen next, however, would be hard for timber industry managers to swallow: the thinned forests need to be left alone, other  than for replanting of appropriate species in appropriate terrain. The goal would be to recreate tree plantations as living forest, NOT to boost the timber harvest.