 This is KMPR News. I'm Rick Andrews. The high cost of housing has been a major issue for federal wildland firefighters and other U.S. Forest Service employees. The agency is taking a step that will ease that problem, at least temporarily. The Mountain West News Bureau's Murphy Woodhouse reports. This week, the agency announced that it would be refunding half the cost of rent for all Forest Service employees below a certain pay grade and living in government-owned housing.