national forests pits the environment against the economy in some circumstances. dan springer is live in seattle with one of them. dan? reporter: yeah, jon, house republicans say they have a plan that would put thousands of people back to work and save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year and as an added bonus would make the u.s. forests healthier and less prone to catastrophic wildfires. in the last 20 years here in the pacific northwest we have lost about 11,000 logs jobs. hard it hit areas rural counties where most of the land belonging to federal government around designated u.s. forest land. in the county there used to be 10 sawmills. now they are all shut down. the gop plan calls for lifting some environmental regulations that led to 80% drop in logging in national forests. it would streamline the appeal process when timber sales are proposed by forest service. the goal would be to get logging levels back to closer historical levels seen between 1980 and 2000.
this case they don t have much say because all of the logs are coming off private timberland. the real people who are affectsed is the mills because they have to pay the same price or more for their logs that they cut up but they can t get more on the back end because again the soft domestic market. china mainly wants logs, not cut lumber. the mills which do very well when trees are getting cut are actually getting squeezed. sawmills will have to face how bad do they want to continue to run? it is not going to be profitable with the chinese influence on raw materials, it is not going to continue to be unless they find an export market like we ve done. reporter: and those lumber mills will eventually have to raise prices to stay in business. that means we ll pay more at the home depots of the world. jon? jon: dan springer live in seattle. thank you, dan. patti ann: the meeting that could end once and for all the sensational sex crimes case against dominique
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