Monday, July 12, 2004

Bush permits more logging in National Forests

Bush just overturned a rule by Clinton that disallowed loggers from building roads into more that 1/3 of National Forests. State Governors may prevent loggers from doing this, but only by petitioning someone or something (I have to investigate this more). Lucky for those trees (that we collectively steward)who wish to be sold as paper--most of America's governors are Republican and in the pocket of loggers who would rather plunder public lands than invest (any or more) in their own. How does this happen? It's like people receiving government milk and selling it to Wal-Mart. And that's ridiculous without even getting into environmental concerns.

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