As a counter point, in Western NC the National Forests are major tourist destinations, and many rural towns with no other industry to speak of are able to thrive because people come from all over to enjoy them. These towns are filled with businesses catering to tourists and there are plenty of jobs doing so.
Logging isn't the only way for a community to profit from a forest, conservation can do this too.
This is true and worth mentioning. Much of the tourism industry won't work with logging and mining soiling the pristine landscape.
A negative angle is that they used to be able to live off the land with hard work. Then the city people banned that, and now they're reduced to serving those city people on their nice vacations.
Logging isn't the only way for a community to profit from a forest, conservation can do this too.