NYT Logging Industry

Both Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, and Troy Jackson, her Democratic challenger, grew up in Aroostook County, a vast, isolated northern wilderness. Those roots have helped define them.

Loggers are finding it impossible to profitably harvest some federal forests. That leaves more fuel for fires to accumulate.

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The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.