Idaho governor says logging slowdown risks major wildfire

Idaho is at big risk for a catastrophic wildfire because of the lack of logging, Gov. Butch Otter told members of Congress on Tuesday. Otter said a disaster along the lines of the devastating 1910 wildfires could be coming, as the trees that came in after those fires are reaching the end of their natural life. That leaves plenty of decaying material on federal lands to burn. "We’ve got a devastating fire coming at us ... because of natural death of that forest and its coming at us," Otter told a group of sympathetic Republican lawmakers from the West who are members of the Congressional Western Caucus on Capitol Hill.