Personal firewood permits excluded from tree-cutting ban

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — People who rely on firewood from national forests in New Mexico and one in Arizona now can cut and gather it.
A federal judge on Tuesday excluded personal firewood cutting and gathering from a larger ban on timber management activities in all five New Mexico national forests and the Tonto National Forest outside metropolitan Phoenix.
Environmentalists who sued the federal government over the threatened Mexican spotted owl had asked U.S. District Judge Raner Collins