10/02/2013
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"Litigation. The Forest Service is afraid to make a move to do anything for fear of litigation."
"Would a short-term moratorium on lawsuits for high-risk timber or insect-infested timber--and, by the way, 'insect-infested timber' is D.C.-speak for dead trees."
"Yet loggers are struggling to find work."
"And most professionals I talk to, including the Chief, they just want to do their job, do what is right for the forest, and do what is right for the rural communities."