Your points about multi-use of the WMNF are well taken. I do know where wood comes from actually, and I've hiked a bit in Maine too. And yes, if you'd cut a XC ski trail in the WMNF, I'd likely have been very happy to ski it myself.
Even those here who might like to see less logging in the the National Forest and other treasured lands of the northeast don't seem to go around peppering the majority of their posts on other topics with malicious comments about 'money-grubbing loggers' and the like, do they?
It just seems a bit disingenuous (or maybe even ironic) for someone to spread anti-mountain club rhetoric like "high priced AMC sites", "wrong wrong wrong AMC ! AKA Appalachian Money Collectors", and on and on and on, when the source of this animosity is itself personally financial at its core.
One of the reasons I'm thankful that the Appalachian Mountain Club, and other organizations like it, have been on watch in the northeast for the last 130 years or so, is that I have to wonder what the mountains would look like today if they hadn't been there to balance the weight of such individual profit motives. Yes, I am aware of the logging history.
And most importantly for VFTT, perhaps, this thread has been thoroughly hikjacked by yet more anti-AMC content, from its initial inquiry regarding Hawthorne Falls. I believe this is what several other posters have pointed out to you already. For my part in falling into the trap of attempting to clarify the motivation behind the campaign, I am sorry. I wonder what part the AMC, the Weeks Act, and other forces of conservation over the years may have played in preserving the Hawthorne Falls area?