Tongass Travesty

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Older news worth repeating:

Tongass Travesty
December 27, 2003


The Bush administration has pulled another thread from the intricate legal tapestry shielding the national forests from excessive logging. On Tuesday, it announced that the Tongass National Forest in Alaska would be denied protections provided by the so-called roadless rule, a federal regulation prohibiting the building of roads — and by definition most commercial activity — on 58.5 million acres of national forests.

The administration presents the new policy as a necessary tonic for southeast Alaska's depressed economy, and as a necessary response to a state lawsuit that it says it could never have won. The reality is otherwise. This is essentially a holiday gift to Senator Ted Stevens and Gov. Frank Murkowski, both of whom have lobbied for the resumption of the clear-cutting that has already stripped the nation's only temperate rain forest of a half million acres of old-growth trees.
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http://forests.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=28046

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1. but of course

could we expect less from bushco?
just wait til they're done.

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2. I also think they are thinking about the White Mountains.

Mostly in NH and a little that goes into Maine. New roads and logging.Should be interesting.Someone must have giving Bush a million in NH so he will sell off the Wh. Mts. to them I guess. Not hard to figure what will go in this country when you see who gives money to our President. Also look who does things wrong and you can find them working for Bush, a long the side of people who loose elections. We should be glad Bush is not running say Ford Corp. if this is how he runs a country.