Judge nixes logging in Sequoia monument

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/sequoia_monument

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Bush administration plan to allow commercial logging inside the Giant Sequoia National Monument violates environmental laws.

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer sided with environmental groups that sued the U.S. Forest Service over its plans for managing the 328,000-acre preserve, home to two-thirds of the world's largest trees.

Breyer had issued a preliminary injunction in September 2005 to halt further logging in the national monument created by President Clinton in 2000. In the lawsuit filed last year, the Sierra Club and other conservation groups said the management plan for the reserve in the southern Sierra Nevada range was a scientifically suspect strategy that was intended to satisfy timber interests under the guise of wildfire prevention.

[RufusEarl]

1. If you've never visited the Giant Sequoia National Park,

you should put it on your to do list. Thanks judge Beyer and the Sierra Club for getting this put on hold, perhaps when we can get rid of Bu$h and his bunch we can get this off the slash & burn list.

[The Sushi Bandit]

2. I grew up going there!

I miss the trees and the rocks and the soil (but not the biting flies and mosquito's)
It is truly a world preservation site if i have ever seen one.
I did get depressed to see in latter years that the smog from the valley would come up into the mountains and make the sunsets a hazy red!