The U.S. Forest Service plans to stop building roads in roadless areas of some national forests. Tom Bearden reports.
Timber is the economic heart and soul of Cascade, Idaho.
People have been turning trees into lumber around here for nearly a century. But now they're desperately afraid that the government is deliberately trying to put them out of business. Later this summer the US Forest Service plans to stop building new roads in presently road-less areas of the national forests. Without those roads, loggers say they won't be able to harvest timber in those areas. Many people in Cascade think the moratorium is really just the beginning of a process that will eventually lock up the national forests and deprive them of the steady supply of timber they depend on to make a living.