Battle lines drawn over national forest sale (video)

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"Missouri is home to the 1.5-million acre Mark Twain National Forest, which is in 29 Missouri counties. Now, the feds want to sell more than 21,000 Missouri acres. The money would go to fund rural roads and schools, but the schools and roads would mostly not be in Missouri. Instead, they would be in the rural west.

Opponents of the sale include forest users and those who live near the tracts in question. South of Columbia, there are two tracts up for sale, about 50 acres in all.

Rich Guyette is a forestry professor at the University of Missouri Columbia, and has lived next door to the forest for more than 30 years. He's opposed to the sale, using the analogy of a homeowner who gets into financial trouble selling off his backyard to balance his checkbook. "