[Kokojmudd]

More nutjob scientists on the march.

[CWOJackson]

"...58 million acres of remote national forests."

These are national forest, not national parks. People seem to not understand the simply fact that trees are a crop and national "forests" were set up to provide for those crops...nothing more.

[GailA]

"How Private Ownership Saved the Southern Forest" by Charles E. Tomlinson Go to: econot.com

[hellinahandcart]

Friggin' "roadless area conservation initiative."

That abortion should never have seen the light of day.

[.38sw]

And what does an expert on chimpanzees know about forest management in North America?

[RightWhale]

we request that you reinstate the 2001 Roadless Conservation Rule that received very thoughtful input by scientists and the public

It was imposed by elitists on States.

[GOP_1900AD]

I guess they prefer Chi COM lumber to domestic .....

[marsh2]

This has a long history. They did RARE I and II and that was supposed to be it, period. Then Clinton, in his last hours, came up with this new proposal for more "Roadless Areas." I remember attending the hearings and our local Forest knew such little detail over the rushed proposal that it couldn't even tell us where they were proposed to be. When they finaly came out, they weren't true "roadless" areas and had been gerrymandered to fit on either sides of roads and ignore roads and all sorts of contrived configurations.

In an area already exposed to severe fire conditions, the "roadless" rule was insane. It cut off wide areas from access.

[agincourt1415]

The "Conservationists" WOULD RATHER SEE THE FOREST BURNED by Wild Fires, than have roads, and thinning of dead trees to stop the fires.

[PureSolace]

125 scientists

That's all they could dig up? 125?! hrmmm...