One of the good things about traveling across the country is being able to pick up newspapers in small towns, which often cover issues not seen in the national press. In the West, these issues often concern the clash between private property rights and an aggressive environmental lobby which often appears both dogmatic and nonsensical. In Montana, for example, the U.S. Forest Service is fighting a battle with local and imported "tree huggers" over the dispensation of firewood in the areas horribly burned during the catastrophic Yellowstone fires of a few years ago. The Forest Service’s position is that the...