<p>As firefighters battle wildfires throughout Oregon, another war is smoldering over what will become of the burned trees.</p>
<p>Environmentalists have been pressuring the U.S. Forest Service to commit to keeping the burned areas off limits to cutting.</p>
<p>Timber industry representatives want the agency to offer logging sales ? known as post-fire salvage sales ? in areas that burned. They say that will underscore the Forest Service's commitment to continuing to harvest trees and extract economic value from forest products.</p>