The Forests Win: Judge OVERTURNS Bush Plan On Roadless Forests

[kpete]

Judge overturns Bush plan on roadless forests
TERENCE CHEA
Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Wednesday overturned the Bush administration's rules on road construction in untouched areas of national forests and reinstated a Clinton-era ban on new roads in nearly a third of federal forests.

U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Laporte sided with states and environmentalists who sued the U.S. Forest Service after it reversed Clinton's "Roadless Rule" that prohibited logging, mining and other development on 58.5 million acres of forest land in 38 states and Puerto Rico.

In May 2005, the Bush administration replaced the Clinton rule with a voluntary state-by-state petition process that the plaintiffs claimed violated federal environmental laws.

Laporte's ruling Wednesday overturned Bush's "State Petitions Rule."


http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/15565073.htm
the forest is smiling today

[acmavm]

1. Oh I doubt that this is over yet. It's just another step on a long

journey to protect this country.

[madinmaryland]

2. I am assuming this will be appealed to the Supreme Court.

Uh-oh, Scalito, Roberts, and Thomas will be sure to shoot this one down.

[partylessinOhio]

3. * talks like he is the owner of the world!

Chavez is correct!

Is there anything that this Impostor will not ruin for us?

[malaise]

4. LOL

:hide: hiding from the owner of the world.

[Bandit]

5. Why would Bush* want to give states total authority over Federal lands?

These are National forests not state forests so this is just another case of Bush* not doing the job he was given.