(Bush) "'leave no tree behind' policy

[rodeodance]

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=100480&lftnav=progressreport

ADMINISTRATION SAYS GET CHOPPING: Eight days before he left office, President Bill Clinton set aside 58.5 million acres of national forests lands, spanning across the nation from Alaska to Virginia, to preserve them from industrial development. Now, "in one of its biggest environmental decisions," the Bush administration "moved yesterday to open nearly one-third of all remote national forest lands to road building, logging and other commercial ventures." Governors of the states affected by this move have been given "18 months to submit petitions to the U.S. Forest Service to challenge either the old plans to stop development, or to call for new plans to allow it." The director of the Heritage Forests Campaign, a coalition of environmental groups, described the "deliberate action" behind the latest rule change as a "'leave no tree behind' policy that paves the way for increased logging, drilling and mining in some of our last wild areas."

[Vickers]

1. Calling it "one of its biggest environmental decisions" is like calling

slavery "one of our biggest human rights decisions."

Technically correct, but on the wrong side of things.