Bush administration to allow roadless rule to stand

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Bush administration to allow roadless rule to stand

Washington-AP) -- The Bush administration says it will stand by a Clinton-era rule blocking development on 58 million acres of federal land.

Environmentalists hailed the announcement, saying that the so-called "roadless rule" will finally have teeth.

But a spokesman for the timber industry played down the decision, noting that even under the interim rule, no new roads have been built in national forests.

Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey says the administration will soon develop a permanent set of guidelines for roadless areas.

The ban on road-building and development had been challenged in an Idaho case brought by a timber company and a coalition of Western logging and snowmobiling interests.

A divided 9th U-S Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the rule in December.

The court said the Forest Service had met all the legal requirements in developing the road ban, which covers nearly a third of the nation's forests.

[KellyAdmirer]

But will the environmentalist wackos give the man any credit - surely not!

[Mamzelle]

And when it burns, only helicopters can save it.

[ImpotentRage]

God willing we don't lose anymore firefighters.

[joesnuffy]

What ever happend to the hundreds of Executive Orders Clinton brazenly proclaimed
"Stroke of the pen ...law of the land"
Why havent they been repealed?

[bigfootbob]

Saving the lands for these guys?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,88482,00.html

[jeremiah]

Five replies on this subject, if Clinton were in office the gripes would be deafening. Republicans are also in the process of proving that they are different, by giving in to tax cuts for those that filed EITC. 7 Republican senators, are joining hands with the Socialists, to demand that those that pay no federal income tax, be given a refund too.

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