The "Environmental President"...Bush removes logging barrier

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=1&u=/usatoday/20050506/ts_usatoday/bushremovesloggingbarrier

The Bush administration on Thursday overturned one of the most significant land conservation measures of the Clinton presidency: a ban on roads, logging and development on 58.5 million acres of national forests. The move could open large pristine areas to industry.

The so-called roadless rule had affected 31% of all national forest land, mostly in Alaska and the West - an area about one-third the size of Texas.

President Clinton had put the far-reaching initiative in place in the final days of his administration. The Bush administration suspended it soon after taking office. Thursday's action was the final step in abandoning it.

A new rule gives governors 18 months to propose to the Agriculture Department which national forest land should be left untouched and which should be opened for other uses.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. It brings in jobs! (at least until they cut down all the trees)