Not the only solution; furniture, lumber, etc.
However, the 9th Circuit is afraid that the roads required for logging will harm the forest so they banned them in the Federal lands.
Colorado is in the 10th Circuit not the 9th.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/06/nation/na-court-roads6
9th circuit overturns bush admin rules on road building
FWIW, I am currently looking at the 3d upwind fire in 5 days to start w/ in 20 miles of my house.