legislation last week the plan was to allow more logging on federal land and save jobs and the timber communities across the country but environmentalists are now vowing a fight in the senate over that. of dan springer is live in our seattle bureau with the fair and balanced look. dan? reporter: yeah, jenna, this battle is critical in many timber counties in southern oregon is specially where they have been bleeding jobs for a couple of decades. we went to josephine county in southern oregon a valley that used to have 20 sawmills and at one time was the fastest growing in the state. just recently the last one shut down. the rough and ready mill cut timber into wood, door and window frames for homes for 91 years. the problem is that the federal government owns 80% of the land in the county and timber sales have been slowed to a crawl since the spotted owl was listed as endangered species. 85 people lost their jobs. you just can t run a business no matter how you adapt, if you don t