The birds, bats, and wildlife either left the area or were killed in the fire. If it is re-forested now, nothing is disturbed. Log and re-plant now.
PS I am not a scientist nor a forester....just have some common sense.
Well, when it burned it then had nothing.
It may have critters now but they had, by definition, to come from elsewhere.
This is more like woodfolk sentimentalism than about anything else. These species likely won’t be lost. They were durable enough to get driven out and come back. My hunch is that this is probably true even for a lot of supposed endangered species (though not all). There’s nothing like a wildlife census of America. The area to be covered is too vast.
In fact I will venture that normal logging will not kill off anything significant. Being overhunted for the sake of vanity, as the dodo was, will do that. If people had thought to establish dodo farms, we’d still have the dodo.