Montana counties show common sense, reject Bush giveaway

[montana500]

www.wilderness-sportsman.com

"Last spring the Bush administration decided to revise former President Bill Clinton's Roadless Area Conservation Rule, in part by seeking advice from governors as to which roadless areas in their states should or should not be preserved.

It's perhaps too easy to imagine Bush officials assuming that the governors would find local sentiment favoring more roads, especially in the West, where everybody knows people hate the government anyway. Instead, in Montana at least, what Gov. Brian Schweitzer is finding is a big dose of common sense.

At a meeting with a group of county commissioners Monday, Schweitzer was told Montana's 6.4 million acres of federal roadless land don't need any new roads, thank you. Why build them when the feds can't even maintain the roads they already have?"

[marbuc]

1. Thank the moon

Montana has a Dem governor.