Sam Hitt of the Forest Guardians said that the Carson forest had the least restrictive wood policy in the country.

Two environmental groups active in the region, Forest Guardians and the Southwest Center for Biodiversity, were unable to attend.

John Horning, a leader of Forest Guardians in Santa Fe, said that grazing was antithetical to rangeland and forest health.

In "Forest Guardians", the players cooperate to fight off logging robots and protect seeds as they grow into trees.

They came into existence in 2008 when two groups, Forest Guardians and Sinapu, merged to form WildEarth Guardians.

Soon Forest Guardians took on other projects such as the public lands livestock grazing industry.

Even there, however, opposition from groups like the Forest Guardians, an organization based in Santa Fe, N.M., has acted as a brake.

The American public would lose hiking, hunting and camping access to large areas, asserts Sam Hitt, president of Forest Guardians, an environmental group.

"It's a terrible idea," said Sam Hitt, director of Forest Guardians, a regional environmental group based in Santa Fe.

She and her husband, the director of Forest Guardians, a forest conservation organization, moved into a house with what she called a terrible septic system and drain field.