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[17 May 2005|05:47am] |
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What does this idiot of a president have against the forests of this country???????
BUSH ADMINISTRATION ENDANGERS ONE-THIRD OF LAST PRISTINE
NATIONAL FORESTS
Nationwide headlines this month announced that the Bush
Administration is repealing a rule that protects 58.5 million
acres of untouched National Forests from logging, mining and
other commercial interests. Some 60 million Americans get their
clean drinking water from pristine forest areas.
The Administration claims this repeal of the "roadless rule",
will give governors more authority over land within their state
formerly protected under federal law. But critics claim the rule
ultimately grants more land-use authority to the Secretary of
Agriculture, and is no more than a ruse to enable loggers and
miners access to some of America's last wilderness.
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