How to uncut a tree

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"Blowdown blowback in the Selway Wilderness

If two acres of trees are mistakenly cut down in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness during fire season, do they make a sound? Like most good koans, this one doesn’t come with a plain yes or no answer.

Yes, the Forest Service will talk openly about the mistake it made this summer fighting the Cedar Fire on the Clearwater National Forest. No, it didn’t volunteer the information to the general public; and no, it evidently hasn’t been previously reported by Montana or Idaho media.

In early August, lightning sparked a fire about a half-mile inside the wilderness boundary and a couple of miles from Elk Summit Road, which spurs off Idaho’s Highway 12 and climbs about 20 miles before ending at Hoodoo Lake. "