RE: Forest Service Opens Lands to Road-Building

Behethland opines:

"Environmentalists say the new rule also would let the administration rewrite the forest management plans to lift restrictions against development on most of that forest land."

Absolutely! This is a disgrace, and it's been on Bush's agenda since day one. He is just getting around to doing something.

Most of these petitions will be to allow logging in the Pacific Northwest where a great deal of the virgin forest is roadless. This is turning back the clock on all the progress made under the Clinton Administration.