[Always Right]

To put this in perspective, Alaska is about 365,000,000 acres, and right now Bush is only opening up this to build roads.

[carlo3b]

right now Bush is only opening up this to build roads..

Yeah, roads to the other 364,997,000 acres.. :)

[e_engineer]

To put this in perspective, Alaska is about 365,000,000 acres, and right now Bush is only opening up this to build roads.

From the article:

The administration will allow 3 percent of the forest's 9.3 million acres ..... to have roads built on them and perhaps opened to use by the timber industry.

The enviro-nuts would rather see timber burn in place, than see it used to improve human lives.

[sawyer]

Most does not have trees like on this part of Alaska. This is the part that runs down the coast. It is very wet and on the warm side. I am not sure I am for it, I have lived in Alaska and live in Maine and see what clear cut does. Not pretty at all.