Nonsense. I put in logging roads twenty years ago or better. Properly ditching and culvert installation was paramount, not only to Fed, State, and private owners, but was inherently important to the road builder. Roads are expensive to maintain or reinstall, so care was taken to preserve the road, with the expectation that it would be used for access again in the future.
Once the road settles in, there is very little runoff, because the drainage works to preserve the road.
But now that logging is non-existent, those roads are no longer passable. The machinery once owned by the loggers and road-builders that used to be employed on those roads to fight fire is gone too. You want to see runoff problems? See what a quarter-million acres of burnt forest produces.
Alongside of that, your position is cry-baby BS.
The timber industry has come a long way over the past decades for which they have been given very little credit. Growing up in Southern Oregon I used to go into the woods near my home and find red clay logging roads that had become ditches with sides taller than I was. And the mills would empty their log ponds into the creek and it would turn black for weeks. The Environazis will never be happy until timber industry is dead! And what gets me is those groups are funded by contributions from idiots that have never, now will ever, set foot in the State.
I’ve seen whole mountain sides come down into the river because of logging. Perhaps it wasn’t the roads. See Deer Creek, North Fork of the Stillaguamish.