12.12.02 Bush moves with plan to thin forests By GARY HARMON The Daily Sentinel The Bush administration moved Wednesday on plans to reduce the fire hazards in the nation's forests before summer. Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Agriculture Secretary Anne Veneman met with President Bush before announcing a series of actions aimed at trimming the amount of time it takes to approve logging projects. U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis, R-Colo., chairman of the subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, said this step, in what Bush has dubbed his Healthy Forests Initiative, can go only so far and that Congress eventually must...