In 1964 there were 54 wilderness areas - 9.1 million acres. The number of wilderness areas has grown every year to a total of 757 and 110 million acres. Over half that growth in wilderness areas occurred during the Reagan administration. While some websites note that this acreage is only 5% of the landmass in the US, they fail to mention only 33% is forested.

If you want houses, paper and other wood products, we have to cut down trees. These trees get replanted and cut again in 40 years. Or we could simply keep buying more virgin timber from Canada.

If you don’t like relying on foreign oil, then allow more drilling and develop our oil shale/sands resources.
Else it's makes about as much sense as saying "we want more hamburger buy we have to stop killing cows".

As much as green alternatives give people a warm fuzzy, their development to the point of becoming viable alternative is a long way off.