Bush administration eases logging rules

Healthy forests my ass:

The Bush administration on Tuesday eased restrictions on
logging old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, completing a rules
change that will allow forest managers to begin logging without first
looking for rare plants and animals.
[...]
The change was prompted by a timber industry lawsuit and is intended to
increase logging on 24 million acres of public land.
The timber industry had complained for years that so-called "survey and
manage" rules are intrusive and can take years to complete. Those rules
require study of the potential effects of logging on about 300 plant
and animal species.

Posted by flow Frazao on March 24, 2004 at 01:26 PM | Permalink