Bush administration plans to scrap roadless-rule forest protections

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Unsure whether this has been posted before....my apologies if so.
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Roads to Perdition

Bush administration plans to scrap roadless-rule forest protections

Many political observers thought President Bush would lay off the environment during the election season. After all, he faces an opponent with a well-burnished rep as an environmental good boy.

Seems they've misunderestimated Dubyah yet again.


On Monday, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman announced a Bush administration plan to scrap the hard-won Clinton-era "roadless rule" -- a move that Phil Clapp, president of National Environmental Trust, ranks as "one of the top five biggest attacks on the environment since the Bush administration set foot in the White House, not to mention the single biggest giveaway to the timber industry in the history of the national forests."

more.....
http://www.gristmagazine.com/muck/muck071404.asp

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1. Americans had spoken on this

it was/is will that the wilderness be protected.

"2.2 million public comments, more than 90 percent of which were favorable. "....the most popular environmental initiative in recorded history,""