Flagstaff, Ariz. • People who rely on wood stoves to heat their homes in the winter are scrambling to find other options after a U.S. District Court halted tree cutting on large swaths of national forests in the Southwest over concern about a threatened owl.
"We have some elderly people that we have been serving for decades and they totally rely on this wood and on us, and it's causing me to panic wondering if I'm going to be able to keep these senior citizens warm, these widows," said Della Barrone, an owner of Olguin's Sawmill in Taos, New Mexico.