Leaders in some towns in the forest’s four-county area support a plan for increased logging. But there's also implications for endangered species, whom environmental advocates warn are at risk if logging were to increase.
For decades the Allegheny National Forest functioned mostly as a tourist destination and a place dotted with small towns where locals lived quietly in vastness of the forest's 500,000 acres. That's about to change.
We paint a picture of how the increase in timbering will change the forest—and affect people who live there.
