COUNTDOWN (447 DAYS) TO VICTORY '04 --<BR>IN FOCUS -- HEALTHY FOREST INITIATIVE!

The White House, Associated Press, etc. ^ | August 11, 2003 | PhiKapMom/various

[PhiKapMom]

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[PhiKapMom]

BUSH + CHENEY = VICTORY '04

[PhiKapMom]

Can you be so kind as to remove the < BR > from the Headline? I totally missed it when previewing!

Thanks!

[Richard Kimball]

Also in front page news, html tags don't work in headlines.

Just consider this a smart-*ssed bump.

[Howlin]

You have Freepmail.

[MeekOneGOP]

[PhiKapMom]

As soon as I hit post and before I saw it, I knew what I had done! I copied from my headline instead of retyping and left in the BR but it was too late!

Getting to be a habit -- did it Friday too! I now have a post-it note on my computer to check!

Appreciate the bump! I should know better!

[Right_in_Virginia]

"Accelerates the treatment of hazardous undergrowth and brush."

Yes!! Hopefully this common sense proposal will prevail.

[PhiKapMom]

That would be great to have a common sense approach return to the forest! I am so sick and tired of the environmentalist and when I read Dean equated environmentalism to national security -- I couldn't believe he said that -- but I should have guessed!

[PhilDragoo]

Lieberman-Dean for the Environment

[forester]

You have done a good job assembling info here PKM. Let me see what I and some other folks can add.

[forester]

Healthy Forest Intiative HR 1904 summary

[PhiKapMom]

That would be fantastic! The more the better because it is something we can always reference as the campaign goes on!

[PhiKapMom]

ROFLOL!!! That's good!

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.

[forester]

Senate Panel Juggles Wildfire, Forest Management

Fiddling While the West Burns

[forester]

Healthy Forest Action Alert

McInnis: Time to act on forest thinning

How a forest stopped a fire in its tracks

Interest groups heavily appeal Forest Bills

House approves Bush plan to speed up logging to stem wildfires

In addition to the Healthy Forest Initiative, the administration is also making internal policy changes to the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management small timber sale policy. Specifically, the administration is providing the legal justification for exempting small projects from excessive environmental review. This complies with a court order from several years ago that invalidated the "categorical exemption" status that the agencies had been using to streamline the environmental review process. The court invalidated the agencies rationale and asked for more extensive documentation that these projects did not pose a significant adverse effect to the environment. Thankfully, the Bush administration has given the court what it asked for, and it appears that this exemption will be reinstated. Here are the links to this policy change:

New rules will broaden firefighting, logging in US Forests

[forester]

Here is the other link: Forest Service establishes new timber sale rules

[Victoria Delsoul]

Bump!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!