Obama asks court to block forest road building (The rot and burn gang rides again!)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/13/09 | Matthew Daly - ap

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration says it will defend a 2001 rule imposed by President Bill Clinton that blocked road construction and other development on tens of million acres of remote national forests.

The administration's decision was contained in court papers filed Thursday in a case in Wyoming that could help settle the fate of remote federal forests. The administration is siding with environmentalists in the case.

[PsyOp]

Burn! baby Burn!

[caver]

Several groups that I belong to are related to caving as you might guess by my name. They are the biggest bunch of environuts as you’ve ever seen. They are all dead set against any type of logging. Me and my buddies are the token right wingers in these groups.

[charmedone]

I am heading up to the Mogollon Rim on Monday for 1 cool month of camping and enjoying the Apache Sitgreaves forest. We will camp about 5 miles from the extreme burn edge of the fire that in 199? burned 532,000 acres of prime Ponderosa Pine. I would love to see a back burn of about 50 acres with a tree hugging SOB tied to the top of each tree. Their screams would be music to my ears!

Would be a small retribution for those lost in the original fire.

[KTM rider]

OH yeah, i was expecting this, surprised it took so long. There is a lot more to "the roadless initiative" than merely " blocking road building"

for one , it screws thousands of people out of access to their private property in order to please the enviro-kooks. It closes hundreds of roads in deserts and forests

[KTM rider]

The "roadless Initiative" closes hundreds of roads arbitrarily at the whim of the local environmentalist extremist groups all across the USA.

This article is very misleading , it makes it sound like all it does is stop new roads from being built.

[Texas resident]

Controlled burns are a good thing. I own about 120 AC of good forest land in East Texas with mostly pines and some hardwoods. We do cuts every 8 or so years and controlled burns to get rid of the dead underbrush. Goes a LONG way to prevent wildfires.

[KTM rider]

Don’t you just love hopey changy alinsky style marxism ?
I wonder if Hussein would like to go do some hunting and camping with me...ya think ?
I’d even let him wear the orange vest

[ladyjane]

According to Obama, “I don’t know much about building roads in the forest but I know those road builders are acting stupidly.”

[KTM rider]

The most insidious point of this "Roadless Rule" is that embedded within these 31 pages is the fact that these areas declared within the 2001 roadless initiative are in fact not roadless at all. They have merly been declared roadless. Roads and trails within these areas are thereby declared "non-existent ". It also qualifies forest areas as eligible for "wilderness status".

This lawsuit is designed to set precedent for a sweeping federal reinstatement of the rule instead of on a state by state basis.

The state of California ninth circuit court of appeals quietly re-instated the roadless rule around Aug 3 of this year, this is the first I have heard of it.

So I would be a little nervous if I owned property within one of these "roadless areas"