Judge rejects Bush plan to log in Sequoia National Monument

[deminks]

http://www.examiner.com/a-236015~Judge_rejects_Bush_plan_to_log_in_Sequoia_National_Monument.html#

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Bush administration plan to allow commercial logging in Giant Sequoia National Monument, home to two-thirds of the world's largest trees.

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer sided with state Attorney General Bill Lockyer and environmental groups that sued the U.S. Forest Service over plans to log about 3,200 acres of the 328,000-acre preserve, home to 38 Sequoia groves in Central California.

"The Forest Service's interest in harvesting timber has trampled the applicable environmental laws," Breyer wrote, calling the agency's forest management plan "incomprehensible."

The plan would have allowed up to 7.5 million board feet of timber - enough to fill 1,500 logging trucks - to be removed each year from the monument in Sierra Nevada, the plaintiffs said.

[Turbineguy]

1. Goddam activist Judges!!!

How dare these people stand in the way of progress?:sarcasm:

[stepnw1f]

2. He's a Real Evil Bastard

It's almost as if he were in a rush to do everything and anything that is bad for this country.

[wtmusic]

3. We're getting a close look

at the true colors of unbridled capitalism.

[0007]

4. ....ain't that the truth!

[stepnw1f]

5. Unbridled Capitalism leads to Fascism----> GOP

Pushing this philosophy with all their might, and they have the audacity to call exremists in the Middle East as being "Islamo-fascists". Fucking cowards they are, never to be honest about anything at all. They wouldn't survive if they did.

[JudyM]

7. Nice that a few exercise their power to call him on his *hit.

"Incomprehensible" - that sums up a lot of his 'management' policy. Stay the course, Georgie. The course of raping and pillaging.

[Carla in Ca]

10. Oh, this is such good news

John Muir is smiling now. And so am I!!

[anitar1]

9. Bush lusts for the forests--

He is an evil bastard. This makes me have thoughts that are very sadistic.I wish he and all of his family for generations to come the very worst that life can hand to them. May he suffer a slow and very painful future,rotting in jail where he belongs.I feel the country has died already and we just haven't had the memorial yet.Sorry, I am not an optomist any more.

[jayctravis]

6. Huh huh...."Want some wood" Georgie?

[rodeodance]

8. trampled trampled trampled trampled

[Nutmegger]

11. Good news!

Bush can't get his way 100% of the time.

[schmuls]

12. Alright! If only all the ____sucker's plans would be shot down!